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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: =tagging-method and non-portable filenames
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John Goerzen |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: =tagging-method and non-portable filenames |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Sep 2003 16:05:12 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) |
Stig Brautaset <address@hidden> writes:
> # unrecognized. If they are directories, traversal does _not_
> # descend into those directories. Currently, the illegal
> # characters are *, ?, [, ], \, space, and tab. (The set of
> # illegal characters may shrink in future releases.)
>
> IIRC these are hard-coded dependancies and no change you make in the
> =tagging-method file will allow the filenames to contain e.g. spaces.
Apparently these both underestimate the problem. See:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182581
It appears that characters such as umlauts and other high-ascii or
UTF-8 characters are also banned, though there is no escaping issues
with them.
-- John