> So I propose this as a universal quoting scheme: > > \<char> where <char> is not ASCII alphanumeric. No thank you. This sounds dangerously like the windows command shell quoting rules. At first clance they appear to "just work", however when you actually try to figure out what's going on it gets horribly messy. For example UNC paths (which start with a double backslash) come out really weird with your suggestion. Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html