> On May 28, 2011, 9:29 a.m., David Faure wrote:
> > The handling of '/' could use KIO::encodeFileName instead, for consistency. 
> > I agree about "." and ".." though ;)
> 
> Mark Gaiser wrote:
>     I wonder.. don't we need a "isFilename" function that checks if a 
> filename meets all the characters that are allowed in a filename thus 
> returning false when it starts with a / or for example contains a *? or being 
> equal to . or .. ? That would make the use more "portable" since i can 
> imagine other apps benefiting from that (any app that needs to create a file 
> or folder from user input)
> 
> Richard J. Moore wrote:
>     Filenames containing * and ? are perfectly legal. The only truly illegal 
> characters in a unix filename are / and \0. To be portable, you need to 
> consider the underlying filesystem in which a file is being created since 
> this sets the rules, for example FAT has a bunch of characters that can't be 
> used (eg. consider how a filename starting with ? would interact with its 
> file deletion handling). Short version, I don't see how the function you 
> propose could be implemented.
>

You are completely right. I didn't think about the differences per filesystem.


- Mark


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On May 28, 2011, 6:26 p.m., Matthias Fuchs wrote:
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> (Updated May 28, 2011, 6:26 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.
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> Summary
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> nt
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> 
> This addresses bug 211751.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211751
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> Diffs
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>   kio/kio/kdirmodel.cpp 6bf57be 
>   kio/kio/kfileitemdelegate.cpp cb3939d 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101456/diff
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Matthias
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