Re: [MACCAWS] Filenames and directory structure conventions

MJ Ray <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:38:05 GMT
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.vkit
Message-ID <[email protected]>
John Colby <[email protected]> wrote:
> The only characters allowed in filenames are a-z aphabetic, 0-9 numeric and 
> underscore

Now you've gone one step too far.  Why can't I name a folder after the town
where I live just because it has an apostrophe?  Even the URI specification
allows that, and that's quite conservative.  Why not just support RFC 2396?