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Re: Valid file-name characters


egor duda wrote:
> That's exactly my point. Having some fancy rules for filename encoding
> breaks interoperability with native tools. Escaping non-valid
> characters like ':' is not big problem, since native tools can't use
> such names anyway. But messing with valid characters like '%' is far
> more dangerous and error-prone.

OK, so we need to think long and hard before picking an escape character. But
surely bypassing Windows's invalid characters in filenames is worth problems in
the extremely rare corner case that filenames contain whichever weird character
we pick?

Max.


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