Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
On 10/24/07, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Since it's primarily Windows that should have this problem (AFAICR most
*NIXs allow anything other than "/" in a file name) it should be easy
enough to find a list of prohibited chars.
in *NIX filenames with spaces are particularly tedious... I
personally would forbid spaces in filenames en-toto as they tend to
make scripts fail...
Haha, a friend of mine used to keep a program around whose file name was
" " (just a space) to confound *NIX newbies. (I can't remember if the
program did anything interesting or not.)
More seriously, though, those working inside some desktop environment
(like GNOME) don't have to worry about what's in file names since the
environment takes care of making sure the file names are handled
appropriately.
(Your preference does make an argument to have the list of
chars-banned-from-file-names configurable though in thinking more about
it now I'm not sure where such a preference would be.)
