Re: [Jmol-developers] special characters in translations (we have a mac encoding problem)..

[Jonathan G. <gu...@uw...>]

Bob,
	I got most of the special characters with replacement of them in  
file names set up.  I think I would like to also add the option of  
inline scripts, but lets save that for 11.8.
On Aug 31, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Robert Hanson wrote:

> ok, then don't allow special characters in the names that are going  
> to end up files names. Make it explicit, and make it show to the  
> user exactly what the file name really will be so there are no  
> surprises.
Exact file name is taken care of in the log.  Do you think that is  
good enough?
> Also don't allow spaces. I would allow only a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _ and -
I wasn't going to allow hyphens, but can add that.

>> Angel,
>> 	Is there a chance that Spanish speakers would use accented
>> characters in directory names?  If so I will need to fix check for
>> accented characters in the path as well.
>>
>
> There are all chances that they'll try to do so, unfortunately.
>
How bad is this?  Do I need to put a fix in?  Based on the way things  
are sometimes passed, I'm not sure how easy this is going to be.

Jonathan
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