[thelist] cross-platform file names
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Wed Apr 20 16:51:35 CDT 2005
Jeffery To wrote:
> What happens when we extend the practice of avoiding problematic
> characters to file names with accented characters? (If I have two French
> files named "âge" and "âgé", do I rename them to "ge", or "age"?) What
> about Chinese file names?
"âge" is not ambiguous -- "â ge" is :-) (is four spaces a
series of 4 %20s or a single %09?)
And the "transcribability" guidelines in the cited document are
about non-tecnical people being able to, say, scribble a URI on a
piece of paper and give it to a friend, who then enters the URI in
their browser. That doesn't preclude using "âge" and "âgé".
> BTW I'd be interested to know of any browsers that will show %20's
> instead of spaces to the user.
My Firefox (SuSE) and IE (W2K) both show %20 and %09 in the address
bar; a directory listing from a Tomcat server shows two seemingly
identical listings, though Apache shows the expanded tab (though
with no indication whether it's a tab or multiple spaces)...
FWIW!
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