[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3072: MythGame: Apostrophe or single quote in filename breaks selection.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/07/2007 11:50 AM, MythTV wrote:
> #3072: MythGame: Apostrophe or single quote in filename breaks selection.
>
>
> Comment(by anonymous):
>
>  Well, I suppose for 'clueless Windows uses' this might be a good fix - but
>  not really relevant for intelligent people that recognize that apostrophes
>  and quotes, spaces, slashes, and other cli-significant characters dont
>  belong in filenames to begin with., and if for some reason they encounter
>  such a file, automatically rename away the offending characters.
>
>  Personally, I'd be happy if all unix-based filesystems automatically
>  converted such characters to single dots anytime they were used.
>   

After all, that /is/ the Unix way:  do what the user means, not what the
user says because the system is infinitely smarter than a mere user.

Oh, wait.  That's the Windows way, not the Unix way.  Unix does exactly
what you ask of it.

>  Sane characters to use in filenames: Alphabetic a thru z (Upper and
>  lowercase), numberic digits, dash, underscore, colon, plus, tilde and dot.
>   

Funny...

In MS Windows FAT filesystem, filenames may not use:

" * / : < > ? \ |
control characters 0-31
DEL

and can only use:

+ , . ; = [ ]

with FAT32.

In Unix and NTFS, filenames may use any character other than forward
slash ("/") and NULL.  (Though NTFS supports the characters:

\ : * ? " < > |

the Win32 subsystem prevents their use in filenames.)

>  Characters only idiots or morons use: spaces, slashes, ticks, quotes,
>  asterisk, dollar-sign, commas, pipes, greater/less than, ampersand, etc.
>   

So, what you want is actually closer to what Windows does (ever think
about switching?), though Windows still allows morons to use:

' $ , &

and space.

Thanks, though, for your input.

Mike "idiot, a.k.a., moron" Dean

(I don't use these characters in filenames, but because I don't like to
type them.  However, I am definitely not an "intelligent [person] that
recognize[s] that apostrophes and quotes, spaces, slashes and other
cli-significant characters don't belong in filenames to begin with.")