Re: [Filecaddy-developers] Bad characters in file names...

[David J. K. <dke...@ko...>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:10:37AM +0000, Matthew Bevan wrote:
> What characters should I dissalow (translate into spaces or _ characters)?
> 
> So far, I've got the following rules set up:
> 	if ( *p == '/' ) *p = '_';
> 	if ( *p < ' ' ) *p = '_';
> 	if ( *p > 165 ) *p = '_';

I don't see any need to convert spaces into '_' - the space character is
completely legitimate in VFS file names.

Technically, here's what's allowed in VFS file names:

- Letters A through Z.
- Digits 0 through 9.
- All characters with ASCII codes greater than 127.
- Space.
- The following characters below 30h: $ % - _ @ ~  ! ( ) { } ^ # &

If you exclude these chars above 165d, files with non-English names (i.e.
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) will end up being nothing but underscores).

The only stuff you *really* need to keep out is "/ \ : ? *" since
DOS/Windows uses those for path separators and wildcards.

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