Re: Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

[Whit Blauvelt <whit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 08:47:17AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ross Walker wrote:

> > In my world I have two parts of the file system, one containing OS and
> > apps that runs short-name standard and the other where the user data
> > files are contained that uses long names and sometimes unicode names,
> > and these can be all kinds of ugly.
> > 
> > These days one needs to learn to quote paths or suffer the pain...
> 
> Lots of easily-avoided choices turn out badly in the long run, don't they...

Sooner or later all this will have to support unicode well. It's an ugly
legacy that we don't. Yes, anyone running systems should learn English; but
that doesn't mean they shouldn't use native languages in file names. 

On the spaces thing, why not craft something in Perl that walks through the
file tree and replaces all spaces by underscores? Unless that breaks other
stuff that's really depending on those spacey filenames just as they are....

Whit
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