texture with spaces in name

I have a collada that uses texture whose names have spaces, like:

./PANNA 1lt x 3d.ARD-I3.png

Converter fail.
Output
WARNING: Image uri: PANNA 1LT X 3D\.\PANNA could not be resolved

Apart from changing the name of the texture is there any workaround to make it works with texture names that have spaces?

Reproduce the converter failure with the provided COLLADA image entry and a texture filename containing spaces. Trace how the image URI is parsed and resolved; done when the converter resolves the referenced texture without requiring the filename to be renamed.

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