In article <lvydneajg7lxnhtmnz2dnuvz_rkdn...@westnet.com.au>, Neil Hodgson <nhodg...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >Andrew Berg: > >> This is not a Unicode issue since (modern) file systems will happily >accept it. The issue is that certain characters (which are ASCII) are >> not allowed on some file systems: >> \ / : * ? "< > | @ and the NUL character >> The first 9 are not allowed on NTFS, the @ is not allowed on ext3cow, >and NUL and / are not allowed on pretty much any file system. Locale >> settings and encodings aside, these 11 characters will need to be escaped. > > There's also the Windows device name hole. There may be trouble with >artists named 'COM4', 'CLOCK$', 'Con', or similar. > >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/74496
That applies to MS-DOS names. God forbid that this still holds on more modern Microsoft operating systems? >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nul_%28band%29 > > Neil -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
