Re: fix_bad_filename

"Joe Pham" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mobile.bitpim.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>It escapes any character outside the ascii range, even though the 
>filesystem can handle them.
> ...

It does exactly what it's supposed to do, and no phone file name has 
broken it yet.  If a specific OS can handle a larger set of 
characters, you're welcome to improve on it.

>The name shown in the gui is the escaped filename, not the original 
>name

IIRC, it used to do that correctly before the GUI changes.

>The solution should show the phone's filename in the GUI and have a 
>reasonable filename for the host o/s so that things like cut and 
>paste work OK,

Again, that's what the codec is supposed to do transparently for you.

>The O/S filename will be the same as the original filename with the 
>illegal characters removed.

What if you end up with identical file names after removing illegal 
characters?

-Joe Pham




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