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Date: | Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:46:43 -0700 (PDT) |
From: | Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: Valid file-name characters |
To: | "David A. Cobb" <superbiskit AT cox DOT net> |
Cc: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
In-Reply-To: | <91341174502.20020722110344@logos-m.ru> |
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--- egor duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru> wrote: > Hi! > > Saturday, 20 July, 2002 David A. Cobb superbiskit AT cox DOT net wrote: > > DAC> Back in May (where I'm still trying to catch up) there was a > discussion > DAC> starting at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01041.html > DAC> concerning a colon in a filename -- valid in *nix, not in Windows. > > > DAC> Also, we get repeated griping about the encoding of URI's in the > local > DAC> package cache. > > DAC> Would you consider a patch that translated filenames containing > special > DAC> characters: the Cygwin user would see "aux:" but Windows would see > DAC> "aux%??" (I don't recall the encoding of colon)? > > The only problem here is what to do if cygwin user wants to create > both aux: and aux% Use the euro symbol (€)[Alt+0128] instead? It is highly unlikely that a user will want to create aux€. Anyhow, I believe all versions of windows (via windows update if necessary) have support for the €. Cheers, Nicholas P.S. - This is not intended to start a war on the merits of the euro as a currancy, rather it is to discuss the merits of an unused symbol. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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