On 12/12/2008, at 7:34 AM, Noah Slater wrote:
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 02:52:33PM -0500, Damien Katz wrote:
If the design doc has weird characters that aren't supported in the
file
system, we can't make the index file. If we hash the filename, then
it's
impossible for an admin to figure out which files are which from
the command
line. So maybe we should url escape the name for the file system
too. Or just
not support weird characters at all.
People like using slashes in URLs, we can't change that. Slashes in
file names
are problematic, and we can't change that either. How about a
transliteration
from slashes into underscores or something similar. There must be a
non-problematic way of doing this.
The problem with transliteration is collision.
Antony Blakey
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