Ok, here some more resources: RegExp example: http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/java/remove-non-alphanumeric-characters-java-string
Windows filenames & paths: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247%28v=vs.85%29.aspx - - - On the other hand: how to deal with non-latin alphabets? (that is, allowing Unicode file names? e.g. Japanese, Korean, Cirillic, Greek, ... filenames?) See for instance this: http://kourge.net/projects/regexp-unicode-block Maybe in this case it would still be easier to go for the mouse-cat solution which apparently is a bit less daunting... ... well, for now I'll stick with alphanumeric RegExp: - good side: such files would be easier to index if made public - downside: not everyone in the world knows a latin-alphabet based language...? -- Mathieu On Aug 30, 12:37 pm, bdk <mathieu.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm... Daniel, that's for sure the best approach! > > This one looks like nice option (using InputFilter): > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5500060/android-input-type-for-onl... > > -- > Mathieu > > On Aug 30, 12:07 pm, Daniel Drozdzewski <daniel.drozdzew...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On 30 August 2011 10:57, bdk <mathieu.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks Chris, that's for sure useful :) > > > Mathieu, > > > Instead of doing cat and mouse chase of all possible path separators, > > just define, what characters you allow in a reg-ex. This will be much > > easier, as the file names have quite limited number of allowed chars. > > > It is true that System.getProperty("path.separator") or > > File.pathSeparator will store the path separator for current locale. > > But as you see, it will return only the separator for the current > > locale, while you need to filter them all (I think). > > > In other words me defining the file path with Japanese Yen or Korean > > Won while in "en" locale and then quitting your app, changing locale > > to "jp" or "kr" and restarting your app could avoid your checks. > > > -- > > Daniel Drozdzewski > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en