On 05/07/2013 09:28 PM, Neil Hodgson wrote:
Andrew Berg:
This is not a Unicode issue since (modern) file systems will happily
accept it. The issue is that certain characters (which are ASCII) are
not allowed on some file systems:
\ / : * ? "< > | @ and the NUL character
The first 9 are not allowed on NTFS, the @ is not allowed on ext3cow,
and NUL and / are not allowed on pretty much any file system. Locale
settings and encodings aside, these 11 characters will need to be
escaped.
There's also the Windows device name hole. There may be trouble with
artists named 'COM4', 'CLOCK$', 'Con', or similar.
In MSDOS 2, there was a switch that would tell the OS to ignore such
names unless they were prefixed by \DEV. But like the switchar switch,
it was largely ignored by the ignorant, and probably doesn't exist in
current versions of M$OS
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/74496
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nul_%28band%29
Neil
While we're looking for trouble, there's also case insensitivity.
Unclear if the user cares, but tom and TOM are the same file in most
configurations of NT.
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