Re: [MACCAWS] Filenames and directory structure conventions

--- MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

Because while I'm not familiar with the RFC specifically, no machine I've used
does.  Windows gets around this by escaping spaces and apostrophes/single and
double quotes in the actual filesystem.  Similarly, in UNIX-based systems, any
character beyond the 63 John mentioned above is required to be quoted or
escaped.  Which for my money is more trouble than it's worth.

My JPY .02 . . .

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