You think space are bad (and yes I'm old enough that I don't use them)... We work with a company that has forward slashes "/" in their trading name and insist on shared cloud directories involving them to be prefixed with that trading name.

As you as you do anything programmatic in/out of these drives it all hits the fan. So I'd add to the original statement - "Avoid 'technical' companies with special characters in their name", it's just not right...