Re: Filenames, escaping, and GtkFileSystem

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 25/03/2004 4:46 PM, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> Furthermore this escaping is not done by any other application in the
> system, and we're bound to forget it all over the place ourselves, so
> it'll never be really consistant. "/" is forbidden in file names in
> unix, we'll just have to get over it.
>  
Users coming over from Windows shouldn't be that surprised at some 
characters being forbidden in file names.  On Windows, the following 
characters aren't allowed to be entered through windows explorer:
   \ / : * ? " < >

So in contrast, Gnome is a lot more permissive as it is.

James.

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