[aprssig] spaces in object names

[Tom Hayward]

> It has recently come to my attention that DStar objects are being sent to
> APRS with an embedded space in the object name (like "K4HG A"). The APRS
> spec states that objects names can be any printable character. As it turned
> out this is a poor choice of words. Surprisingly to me, whether space is
> printable is debatable. When I searched Google, the first entry (wikipedia)
> and some others very clearly state it is not a printable character. Other
> pages state it is a printable character. This sort of ambiguity is obviously
> not desirable in the spec document.

I thought spaces in object names was a feature of objects, not a bug
or ambiguity. Say I wanted to place the object "Mt. Rainier" at the
summit of Mt. Rainier. The space promotes readability. We are not
limited by AX.25 here, so why not use spaces?

Tom KD7LXL