File, directory names and setting values can have spaces. In that case, you need to escape the space
character with a backslash character (\).
For example, to change the current directory to My files:
cd My\ files
You can also enclose them in double-quotes (“):
cd "My files"
If the name itself has double-quotes, you need to escape them. For example, to change the current
directory to “company" files:
cd \"company\"\ files
or
cd "\"company\" files"
The backslash character has to be escaped too. For example, to change the current local directory to
C:\Documents:
lcd C:\\Documents
You can also enter the characters by their Unicode codepoints. For example, to download the file
€-budget.xlsx or to upload the file Präsentation.pptx:
get \u20ac-budget.xslx
put Pr\xe4sentation.pptx
With \x prefix, the codepoint value is up to 2 hexadecimal digits. With \u prefix, the value is up to 5 hexadecimal digits.
A failure or an incorrect character occurs when using the \u prefix with a codepoint value less than 5 hexadecimal digits followed by a valid hexadecimal digit character. For example:
Stra\udfe (Straße where ß is represented by the codepoint value df) results in error because dfe is a valid hexadecimal number but not a valid codepoint value. In this case, use either:
Stra\xdfe, or
Stra\u000dfe
Character codepoints can be found at www.unicode.org/charts