https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108161
--- Comment #10 from Sergey Kondakov <virtuous...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #9) > Yeah, I think there has to be a way to make this work at least in the UI. > What macOS does is allow the user to use the slash character in filenames > (through the GUI of course) but silently represents them as a colon > character in the actual POSIX filename. We could maybe do something similar. > It's kind of lying to the user about the underlying representation, but the > user generally doesn't care about the underlying representation. :) Fraction/division slash may work - ⁄ (U+2044) and ∕ (U+2215). But colon wouldn't as it's a normal and often-used character in Linux. These slashes stay too close to letters unlike a normal slash. Which is why, I assume, KDE3 used web-like "escape" encoding. But escape encoding is ugly. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
