Re: Unicode puzzles
Walter Alejandro Iglesias <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.slackware |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 07:41:16AM -0500, Dan wrote: > 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 :) Glad to see you understand. Now, if you use Slackware surely you have Pan installed. Please, run it using i.e. gmane news server and see how your message looks in a plain text interface. My next educational post will be about how to send email ;-). Walter