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From: rob@pla... rob@pla...
Subject: No subject
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 19:01:59 -0500

hey, unicode has a gajillion space characters to choose from,
and only one of them is disallowed in file names.
here are some of the others, from grep space /lib/unicode.
get with the program, mon.

00a0	non-breaking space; = iso no-break space; x (space - 0020)
0400		x (non-breaking space - 00a0)
0600		x (non-breaking space - 00a0)
2002	en space
2003	em space
2004	three-per-em space
2005	four-per-em space
2006	six-per-em space
2007	figure space
2008	punctuation space
2009	thin space
200a	hair space
200b	zero width space
2422	blank; graphic for space; x (latin small letter b bar - 0180)
3000	ideographic space; x (space - 0020)
303f	ideographic half fill space