Re: [MACCAWS] Filenames and directory structure conventions

MJ Ray 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?

Putting metacharacters in filenames is asking for trouble from other
systems that manipulate referenced documents.  Eliminating characters
that are commonly significant to software like:

    [](){}\/!"'?*|

is probably wise.

However, whatever recommendations are made should be aware of
internationalisation issues - [a-z0-9_]+ may be an acceptable
restriction for English sites, but is too narrow even for other Western
European languages, let alone those that don't use ISO8859-15.

doug.

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