On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:01:06PM -0400, num...@deathwyrm.com wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > >Filename character limits are also perfectly sensible. Unix, for > >example, doesn't let you use / or NUL in filenames, and for all > >practical purposes you shouldn't be using a vast number of other > >characters either - \'"()*;?& and so on. Unix will let you shoot > >yourself in the foot with those, of course. It'll let you shoot your > >admin in the foot too by, eg, putting a space in a filename that one of > >his scripts later barfs over. > Certain limits are unavoidable, but allowing more than the basic 26 > letters is greatly appreciated by the non-English world.
Remember when VMS was created. Now look to see what other OSes cared about non-English speakers at the time. Mac OS might have done, I don't think anything else of any significance did. VMS is at least no more hateful in this regard than anything else. > Even aside from that, just take a look at (to pick a somewhat random > site) ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ and see how many of those filenames wouldn't be > allowed under "alphanumerics (plus _- and $) with 39 character > filenames" yet are perfectly sensible. Ah, yes, the deliberately pathological case of a heavily Unix-centric site. Yes, I know what GNU stands for. It's still Unix-centric. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea It planely marques four my revue / Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word / And weight for it to say Weather eye am wrong oar write / It shows me strait a weigh.
