Re: Bad Characters in a File Name
Re: Bad Characters in a File Name
- Subject: Re: Bad Characters in a File Name
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:05:34 -0400
At the UNIX level, filenames are treated as opaque byte strings, and
the only illegal byte values are NUL (0) and '/' (47). Any other byte
is legal, including values 1 through 31 and 127 through 255. At the
HFS level, I know that colons (":") are prohibited, but I'm not sure
what else. (Any colons in the POSIX pathname show up as slashes in the
HFS one.)
You mentioned copy and paste into the Finder, but what about other
file operations that use the HFS name instead of the POSIX name? Can
you create an AppleScript alias or file from a name which contains any
of your "bad" characters?
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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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