Re: [Audacity-devel] Fwd: [Audacity-help] problems with "?" importing WAV-file under Mandrake 10.1 powerpack

[Markus M. <me...@me...>]

Yes, I remember that Audacity still has problems with some chars in file
names. IIRC this was fixed for some special chars, like German umlauts a
while ago, but a general solution isn't there.

As for the question mark ('?') in file names, this, as well as the
asterisk ('*') is used as a wild card in about any operating system.
There are certainly loop holes to create files with such names, but this
will create problems with many programs, not only Audacity. IMHO this is
the fault of the OS allowing to create such a file in the first place
or, depending on your view the fault of the program that allowed the
user to type in this name and not show an error message.


Markus

Am Son, den 26.12.2004 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine um 16:31:
> Hi,
> 
> I haven't tested it myself, but it looks like Audacity still has probs
> with various chars in filenames.
> 
> Alexandre
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Thi...@pl... <thi...@pl...>
> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 01:10:18 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Audacity-help] problems with "?" importing WAV-file
> under Mandrake 10.1 powerpack
> To: Alexandre Prokoudine <ale...@gm...>
> 
> 
> Op vrijdag 24 december 2004 09:50, schreef Alexandre Prokoudine:
> > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:45:55 +0100, Thi...@pl...
> > <thi...@pl...> wrote:
> > > Dear Audacity-developers, first I wanna thank you for developing Audacity.
> > > At this moment I use it to export WAV,MP#,etc-files to Ogg Vorbis.
> > >
> > > My Problem is that a file with a "?" sign in the name will not import in
> > > Audacity. I use Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack.
> > > Could it be that Audacity will not work with these kind of signs?
> > >
> > > When i open the "open file dialog" and double-click the track with "?",
> then
> > > the other files disappear, and only the 'map'and the file with "?" keep in
> > > view.
> >
> > I'm not sure that POSIX allows file names with "?". Can you play these
> > files with aplay/XMMS/BeepMP/your_favourite_player ?
> 
> I can play them with Amarok, Kaffeine.
> 
> Grtz Bas!
> 
> 
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