Re: Unicode puzzles
Dan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.slackware |
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On 02/24/2014 06:15 AM, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > How Real Men Name Files > ----------------------- > > For general rule your files should be portable (Lennart sad). OS > compatibility, software compatibility (backward compatibility), file > system type compatibility. Your files must survive traveling across > different protocols in the net, ETC. Then: > > - Do not use characters that could be problematic for software. For > example non ASCII characters. > > - Do not use characters that could be meaningful for programing > languages. For example*spaces*, brackets, colons, etc. > > For example, use "Documents" instead of "My Documents" (even MSWindows > corrected that idiocy on Windows 7). > > In practice. Name your files using: > > 1. ASCII characters (man ascii). > > 2. Just letters, numbers, and a casual hyphen. Start with a letter. > > > Not so problematic but a good convention (some Unix consoles has no > color support and you may think that is a bad thing; you're wrong): > > 3. Start files with lower case and directories with upper case. > > > Educate others in this subject any time you have the chance. > Remember, prevention is better than cure. > > > > Gentleman. Thanks for your attention and have a good day. > > > > Walter Perfect :) _______________________________________________ slackware mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/slackware