On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 01:16 AM, Mark D. Lew wrote:
> What I really hate, however, is that certain punctuation
> characters which were available to me in Mac filenames are off
> limits in Windows filenames!
FWIW, when you eventually move to OS X, there are a few
constraints that apply to file name extensions:
12 characters, a-z, A-Z, 0-9, $, %, _ (underscore), or ~
(tilde), and at least one of the characters following the period
must be an upper or lowercase unaccented letter.
I'm mentioning this because you can make up extensions for your
files and then have these custom extensions mapped to be opened
with a particular version of an application.
The above doesn't apply to the file names themselves and the
bonus is that one can use just about any Unicode character
(which adds several thousands to the choice of unusual
characters to use in file names).
However, if you plan on using the Unix-based utilities at all,
it's generally better to omit some characters
like [, ], (, ), {, }, etc.
Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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