How to customize drag-n-drop-to-Terminal path escaping results?

How can I change the way in which filenames are escaped (formatted) when dragged from applications and dropped into Terminal? For example, paths may be escaped with \, just spaces ( ), or other options. Path Finder, for example, has the following options under Copy Path: - UNIX - HFS - Windows - Terminal - URL - Name Specifically, I'm looking for the setting(s) that can be applied via the shell, such as: defaults write tld.domain.appOrLib SomeSettingScope -string "SettingDetails"