illegal characters in file names

Hans Leidekker hans at it.vu.nl
Fri Jun 29 05:41:59 CDT 2007


On Thursday 28 June 2007, Lei Zhang wrote:

> On Wine the list of characters is:
> 
> /:<>|
> 
> and on Windows, it is:
> 
> \/:*?"<>|
> 
> Is this intentional or something we should fix?

I suspect that the list of invalid characters is filesystem dependent
on Windows (e.g. ntfs vs fat32), which may explain why we can allow
more characters. Do you have an app that breaks because of this?

 -Hans



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