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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nul_%28band%29 Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
