"Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, my real problem is not with `+' per se, but with what will > follow. If `+' is allowed, people will want to have other characters > as well. Before long we will have `:', `|', `<', etc. Where do we > stop, and how do we explain that other characters cannot be present in > file names? At least now we have Posix to back us (many other > programs impose similar restrictions on characters they use in file > names).
In that case, why not use an escape mechanism? For instance, disallowed characters could be translated into a pair of hex digits representing the character's ASCII value. [0-9A-F] is allowed by all file systems. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stanford Ph.D. Student - MSU Alumnus - Debian Maintainer - GNU Developer Personal webpage: http://www.msu.edu/~pfaffben _______________________________________________ Bug-texinfo mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
