Handling files with problem characters in their names?

What is the best way to handle files whose names contain characters
that break functions like FILE-LENGTH, NAMESTRING, and OPEN?

I keep running into this problem where I have large numbers of files
from external sources - I have no control over how they are named and
shouldn't change their names. Here's an example:

"file with [brackets].txt"

The pathname functions think it's a wildcard specification. I can
escape the left-bracket it to work with most of those, but that
doesn't work. Here's another example:

"राम.txt"

I keep coming up with adhoc solutions but I'm wondering how better
programmers handle this?

Thanks.

-- Jeff








_______________________________________________
Sbcl-help mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sbcl-help