Right, but exactly the same argument can be made about disallowing anything other than plain ASCII characters in file names. It may be that in some graphical interfaces, spaces and accented characters and special characters like "$" don't require any escaping whatsoever. In other command-line interfaces, they require escaping. Shall we not allow spaces when saving OpenOffice filenames because when you look at the using the command line interface, you need to type something like:
/media/arena/Music/Coig/Carols/01\ Carol\ of\ the\ Celts.mp3 Sure, this might be "confusing to the uneducated user", but just go ahead and file a bug against RipperX claiming that all such filenames should prohibited. I'll wait, and see what you get back from the author.... If we are going to restrict labels and filenames to least common denominators, then we can't allow any special characters, because the "uneducated user" might not know how to type "è" on a US keyboard. Where do we draw the line in terms of enforcing policy to protect the "uneducated user" from themselves? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2027979 Title: won't warn neither prevent usage of « risky » characters in labels Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, if naming or renaming an EXT volume, e2label lets you use any character, including / or * or $ ( and probably others, like accented letters é è à ) I'd expect at least a warning if such are to be found in a label name. Or better, it should not be possible to use those in label names. Example : a@p:~$ sudo e2label /dev/sdb12 /Ti\$* a@p:~$ a@p:~$ sudo e2label /dev/sdb12 /Ti$* a@p:~$ a@p:~$ lsblk -fe7 | grep sdb12 └─sdb12 ext4 1.0 /Ti$* f583e9b0-f1de-438f-8da8-c1e070407628 a@p:~$ coming from https://forum.ubuntu- fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=22692892#p22692892 ( french ) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/2027979/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
