Re: Naming output files

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2009 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen:
> > PS: Why do we call (string-regexp-substitute "[^a-zA-Z0-9-]" "_" output-
> > suffix) on the suffix? This makes it impossible to use e.g. "Flöte" as
> > the suffix, which is German for Flute! Similar, any other accented or
> > non-latin letter is not possible and will be replaced by a "_".
> > Similarly, spaces or + etc. are also not allowed... I understand that
> > some letters may cause problems (in particular, ":", "/", "\" and maybe
> > also "?" and "*"), but I don't think this is a reason to prevent
> > everything other than latin letters and numbers.
>
> Do all filesytems allow accented characters?  IIRC, some FAT filesystems
> don't allow them.

Some FAT filesystems also don't allow filenames longer than 8.3, yet we don't 
check for this...
Also, we allow accented characters in the base name, just not in the suffix...

Cheers,
Reinhold

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