Re: Problem with swedish letters

Joe,

'?' is not a very good choice. While Windows allows almost any obscure
   characters from swedish or other strange languages in file names,
the following characters are specifically NOT allowed: \/:*?"<>|

While '?' will sort of work in Unix, you still need to escape it with
a backlash when used in file names, so it does complicate things a bit.

I would strongly recommend you to translate to alphanumeric characters
only, plus the "normal" limiters '_', '-', '.'. If you want to put an
elegant touch to your translation you could consider replacing strange
characters with their nearest ascii "look-alike". E.g. 'Ä' becomes 'A'
etc., and then translating to an 'X' for characters without any
natural look-alike. As a special case, 'space' could be translated to
'_' (since spaces are commonly used in Windows file names).

This would be simple to implement if you restrict the look-alike
translation to the Latin-1 character set. For us international users
such a look-alike feature would be much appreciated.

By the way, what happens today if a Windows client downloads an
archive from a Unix Pixory server, where two filenames differ only in
upper/lower case? As windows is not case-sensitive, this should be
some sort of a name clash? On the other hand, if you implement the
"numeric prefix" this will be solved anyway...

/Gunnar 

> I'll follow your proposed scheme, though I think I"ll follow the
> Unix/Web traditions for handling unrecognized characters and replace
> any non-ascii characters with '?'.
> 
> regards,
> 
> joe







 
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