Hi Steve, Steve Litt writes:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 02:38:42 -0800 > Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote: > >> Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen (paddy-h...@member.fsf.org): >> >> > On any Unix-like system I've come across the '/' (and '\0') are >> > about the only character that cannot be used in a filename. >> >> That and null are the only disallowed characters. It's in the Single >> Unix Specification. >> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_170 > > Regardless of any spec, I wouldn't be caught using anything in a > filename except letters, numbers, dots and underscores. Everywhere around me あいうえお and 一二三 are perfectly fine letters and numbers ;-P And there are at least three encodings to store them disk (in file names or otherwise). Fortunately, EUC-JP has pretty much gone the way of the dinosaur but Shift_JIS (MS-932, really) is still a sad fact of everyday life. > Once in a while I'll let somebody else's dash go through. Some day I > should write a filename cleaner to get rid of all that junk windows > people just love putting in their filenames. Hope this enlightens, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
