Unix has allowed its users to make up filenames of all kinds of funny characters for ages, including the newline, tab and space.

It seems, weird characters in filenames have been a no no for unix users - so developers didn't care much about it, why shouldn't we grant everybody the right to mess up if they wanted to? - until windows recently startet "abusing" white spaces in filenames.

From the new perspective of giving the user a safe environment, there seem to be all kinds of issues to fix. Spaces seem lame compared to newline, semicolon and some other things.

Cheers, Sören