Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Glenn Linderman wrote:
On approximately 4/24/2009 11:40 AM, came the following characters from
And so my encoding (1) doesn't alter the data stream for any valid
Windows file name, and where the naivest of users reside (2) doesn't
alter the data stream for any Posix file name that was encoded as UTF-8
sequences and doesn't contain ? characters in the file name [I perceive
the use of ? in file names to be rare on Posix, because of experience,
and because of the other problems caused by such use] (3) doesn't
introduce data puns within applications that are correctly coded to know
the encoding occurs. The encoding technique in the PEP not only can
produce data puns, thus not being reversible, it provides no reliable
mechanism to know that this has occurred.
Uhm.... Not arguing with your goals but '?' is unfortunately reasonably
easy to get into a filename. For instance, I've had to download a lot
of scratch built packages from our buildsystem recently. Scratch builds
have url's with query strings in them so::
Is NUL \0 allowed in POSIX file names? If not, could that be used as an
escape char. If it is not legal, then custom translated strings that
escape in the wild would raise a red flag as soon as something else
tried to use them.
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