On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:10:26 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > Can you try creating "spam:ham" and "spam/ham"? If they're both legal, > I'd like to see what their file names are represented as.
The Finder could very easily be substituting another character, like Konqueror (the KDE 3 file manager) does. In Konqueror, you can create a file named "spam/ham" and it quietly substitutes "spam%2fham" instead. But Konqueror's GUI treats it completely transparently: it is displayed as a slash, and if you copy the file name from the GUI you get a slash. I seem to recall Gnome doing something similar, except it quietly substitutes U+2044 FRACTION SLASH or U+2215 DIVISION SLASH instead. To really be sure what is going on, you would have to bypass the Finder and any shell and write the file name using the OS X low-level API. Or create the file using a classic Mac (system 8 or older), where slashes definitely are not treated as special. Not the Mac OS classic emulation layer. Hmmm... you know I might just be able to do that. Write a file to a floppy, then mount it under Linux. If I had a Linux computer with a floppy disk drive. (The march of technology is sometimes a nuisance.) By the way, for some reason I don't seem to have received Bev's post. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list