The code currently "normalizes" names by removing spaces and capitalization. ANd recently "dot", to support, e.g. m.s-1
But we should probably be smarter. There may be places where spaces and/or capitalization matter.
UDunits, for instance, has an sytax for units where / and . mean something, and Capitalization is significant (so that, e.g. M means Mega, and m means milli -- maybe:-) )
-CHB