Based on my experience, I agree with Vincent's statement. In fact, it has been my observation that even space chars are not a problem.
If this helps: As part of experimenting bulk migration of documents from our MOSS site to XE and following the documentation of WebDAV, I did drag-n-drop of documents from MOSS document library folders into the appropriate "attachments\SpaceName\_D_\DocName" XE folder and found that underscore and spaces were preserved. Moreover, I could delete such attachments. Thanks, Milind ________________________________ From: Vincent Massol <[email protected]> To: XWiki Developers <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, April 6, 2010 10:03:50 AM Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Simple patch to enable/preserve underscore chars in attachment file names Hi Milind, On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Milind Kamble wrote: > Denis, > I understand your point that XE being used globally, needs to support more > than Ascii char set. > While the new reference model matures, could you clarify if underscore in a > file name would break the functionality under the current model where > attachment name is used as a reference for attachments? If not, would it be > possible to eliminate the stripping of just the underscore chars and push > that fix in the next XE release -- I am OK with space chars getting stripped > off. I don't think that underscores are a problem even with the old "reference as string" code. Actually I don't even know why we're stripping them. Sergiu might know more. Any idea Sergiu? Thanks -Vincent > ________________________________ > From: Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> > To: XWiki Developers <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, April 6, 2010 8:30:34 AM > Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Simple patch to enable/preserve underscore chars in > attachment file names > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 14:02, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Milind, >> >> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Milind Kamble <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi. I would like the dev community to evaluate this simple fix that will >>> enable uploading of files with underscore chars in the file name when >> users >>> perform the attach action. Our user community is quite impressed about >> the >>> refreshing ease of use and the power, flexibility in their collaboration >>> work flow made possible by XE. They would like to escape the tyranny of >>> Microsoft-MOSS as early as possible and the main roadblock to do so is >> the >>> stripping of space and underscores from file names which were created in >> a >>> MS-Office centric environment. >>> >> >> I can't do much about your underscore problem (though I promise I'll poke >> the developer sitting right next to me so that he looks at it). >> > > I was already aware of this issue, and I have had similar problemqs with > attachment, not only with "_", but also with accentuated chars etc... > Restriction on attachment names will be easier to be changed when the new > model model using references will be fully in place, since attachment names > are currently used as reference for attachments. Be sure I will take care to > have it improve. > > Denis _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
