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

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 08:50 -0500, Japhering, Anonymous via evolution-
list wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 12:16 +0100, theapplepie differentmail com
> wrote:
> > > evolution: 3.36.4-0ubuntu1
> > > 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'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 

I will correct you - I develop ETL & WebDAV stuff - filenames with
spaces and "special" characters are not a problem on UNIX systems.  Not
at all.

They can be a real annoyance for things like shell scripts which
manipulate files based on name AND assume characters have meaning.  
They aren't a problem anywhere else [ just stop writing shell scripts
].

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

Nope.

> 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. 

If you aren't quoting filenames you have a serious security problem.   

On modern systems tab completion will do this for you.

On the other hand, I don't have any issues with Evolution changing the
filename.  What's that sensitive to filenames?  Technically, however,
the client shouldn't manipulate the payload of the message.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us/>