Re: [Gramps-users] Requesting comments: portable file names

[Nigel H. <nj...@ba...>]

> I would advocate sticking to alphanumerics with a few extras like
> period, hyphen, underscore, dollar sign. I wouldn't support 8.3
> however. Also, remember that the filenames probably have to be
> case-insensitve to work on windows.

Dollar signs would not be a good idea because of its use as a reserved 
character in the *nix shell.

-Nigel