On Oct 21, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Troy Curtis Jr wrote:
> There was some
> discussion related to the fact that '^' is technically a valid
> filename character. It was also mentioned (and I agree) that '^' is
> basically never seen in a real-world filename and so should be OK to
> use for my purpose. Also, treating characters specially that are also
> valid characters in filenames is not un-precedented since every shell
> does it (i.e $, `, etc.).
And, in fact, in a Unix file system, the only forbidden characters
are null and "/" (maybe some multi-byte Unicodes). And you can't use
null because it means "end of string" to C, so your URL would get
truncated, and you can't use "/" because it's already highly
significant to URLs. So you're pretty much stuck with using
something that's already legal.
-==-
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