On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 23:50:38 +0200 Lassi Kortela <la...@lassi.io> wrote:
> * URL encoding (using a "%" character before the digits). I'm not sure if this was a possible consideration or if it would work for your purposes, but apropos/-k has a database created using makemandb(8) and it would theoretically be possible for such a database to hold names that don't necessarily correspond to the filenames, that it could index, search, display, and man(1) could presumably also use it (-k already does)... If depending on the directory tree representation itself is not a requirement. It would even be possible for a custom system to index in an sqlite database and for a web frontend to use SQL queries, including to obtain the actual fullpath to a page (that could be anything, even a PostgreSQL-style directory-sorted serial number for fast access), etc. My second comment may not suit for your use case, but a precedent exists for virtual file systems that embed more information than the native file system allows, an example being umsdos (of course, without special software the OS would remain oblivious to such, but all native filenames would respect the limitations). -- Matt
