[Omniprint-developer] Re: get_combo_data_grove() still broken

[Till K. <til...@gm...>]

Mark Hamzy wrote:

> Hey Till,
> 
> I have already taken your changes and put them into CVS.  We just haven't
> released a new version of omni yet.
>


In 0.5.1 I didn't see them, perhaps you added them afterwards.

 
> I think that it may be usefull if printer names could have parenthesis in
> them as well as other special characters.
> 


Here I agree with you for the human-readable names which appear on the 
printers database web pages or in graphical installers, but file names 
(and Foomatic IDs are file names) should not contain characters which 
are handled in a special way by the shell, as parantheses, spaces, 
slshes, backslashes, asterisks, question marks, or exclamation marks. 
One must be able to type a file name streight away on the command line. 
I would simply replace all of them by an underscore for forming an 
ID/file name. The complete file name/ID I form by putting the 
manufacturer's and the models names (both with special characters 
replaced by "_") together with a "-".

    Till