Re: [Evolution] Evolution changes file names of attachments (underscores instead of spaces)

["Japhering, Anonymous" <japhering gmail com>]

On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 12:16 +0100, theapplepie differentmail com wrote:

evolution: 3.36.4-0ubuntu1

ubuntu Version 20.04.1 LTS, Mate 1.24.0, Kernel Linux 5.4.0-51

generic

x86_64

When storing attachments, their names will be changed!

Example: original:>one two three.jpg<, new:>one_two_three.jpg<

All empty fields will be changed in underlines.

What can I do?

I have the same problem and was about to email to the list but had no

time yet. I am eager to know more about this behaviour and whether the

replacing of spaces in the file name with underscores (underline, low

line, or low dash) can be turned off in some way.

3.36.4-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

(It also happened with previous Evolution versions, though.)

I'm sure someone will correct me, but  space ( as well as a host of others ) in filenames are a pain in the arse on 

any Unix based (Unix, AIX, Linux, BSD) based OS, which means it takes lots of special code to handle.  Translation 

of "special"  characters like  spaces, &, *, etc  is a simple operation which eliminates lots code ( and therefore lots 

of bugs ).

Additionally,  if you try to handle  one two three.jpg  from the command line,  you will have to resort to quoting or 

regular _expression_ matching to access the file.    Otherwise you get results like:

ls one two three.jpg

ls: cannot access 'one': No such file or directory

ls: cannot access 'two': No such file or directory

three.jpg

verses

ls one_two_three.jpg

one_two_three.jpg