Herold Heiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This made me really think about this issue... what about people who do
> access the same filesystem from multiple operating systems ?
> Maybe wget should have a (default disabled!) option to use only common
> denominator characters, which are available on every filesystem
> possible... unix really doesn't have any problems except /, everything
> else is just cosmetical; windows... we all know that :( ... what about
> Os/2 hpfs (same as windows ?) What about BeOs, MacOs, all those where
> wget could theoretically be ported one day or where a filesystem
> mirrored by wget could be accessed remotely ? It's no good thinking
> "well the file system sharing protocol can correct those filenames",
> because the links wouldn't work any more.
Seems like writing to the same filesystem under different operating systems
with different sets of disallowed characters would be pretty rare, but it
would be good to keep such an option in mind as the unsafe character
handling code gets revamped (e.g. to get -k to do proper character
remapping).
> Implementing this should be more easy than gathering a (complete) list
> of problematic characters.
Er, choosing the LCD set is just the inverse of that problem, so I don't see
it as any easier. Anyhow, figuring out which characters are disallowed on
various OSes is much easier than actually implementing the feature.
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