Re: spaces in folder names

[John Prevost <prevost@zarya.maya.com>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> Well, yes. I only fear escaping will get us into more trouble. Suppose
> we replace " " with "_".
> 
> * How do nnimap know how to translate the gnus group name "a_b_c_d" to
> a mailbox name? Is it "a b c d", "a b c_d", "a b_c d" or...?
> 
> * There's no way to create a mailbox containing space
> 
> * There's no way to rename a mailbox to something containing space
> 
> I'll create a mailbox containing space and play around with it to see
> exactly what it is that breaks, perhaps it can be fixed.

Right.  In a way, I was thinking of the evil escape strategy of URLs.
%20 is highly unattractive, but it does at least provide a way of
encoding a space, or any other character.

John.