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Emmanuel Bourg commented on COMPRESS-120:
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Replacing invalid characters with '_' sounds sensible, that's the behavior of
archive utilities likes WinRAR or 7-Zip. There are other restrictions on
Windows that should be considered, like the files using a device name (for
example it's impossible to create a file named aux.txt). The details are
available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa365247
> forbidden chars on windows
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>
> Key: COMPRESS-120
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-120
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Archivers
> Affects Versions: 1.0
> Environment: WindowsXP32bit
> Reporter: Helmut M.
> Priority: Minor
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> while uncompressing a tar archive, which includes files and directories
> containing special characters like
> private char[] forbiddenCharsWindows = new char[] { ':', '*', '?', '"', '<',
> '>', '|' }; the name of the tarEntry is corrupt
> and to create the directory or file is not possible. Exceptions occurs while
> creating them.
> it would be better to replace them with '_' instead to respond invalid
> entrynames.
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