Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Udo Richter wrote: > >> Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> >>> Patrick Fischer wrote: >>> >>>> @Ripley's unglaubliche Welt >>>> will be saved as (only shown if I pipe "ll . > out.txt" and look at >>>> the file or by using xterm) >>>> @Ripley^As_unglaubliche_Welt >>> >>> >>> >>> The single quote character is mapped to 0x01 so that in shell script >>> it is guaranteed that no recording name contains such a character, and >>> you can always be sure that enclosing a recording name in single quotes >>> will work. >> >> >> >> This is only true in classic mode. In VFAT-mode, unsafe characters >> like this are mapped to literal ascii codes, in this case '#27'. >> >> Using ASCII control chars (0x01 alias SOH for ', 0x02 alias STX for /) >> in file names doesn't sound like a good idea to me anyway. Wouldn't it >> be better to use '#27' and '#2F' (and consequently '#23' for #) in >> non-VFAT mode too? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Udo > > > I've now made it so that in "normal" mode (non-VFAT) the single quote > is not mapped any more (IIRC I thought that this might be necessary > for external commands, but with strescape() and "..." this works just > fine). The '/' and '~' are swapped between internal and external > representation, so that no more "control" characters are used. > > For backwards compatibility 0x01, 0x02 and 0x03 are still recognized. > > Please give the attached patch a try. > > Klaus Well, my previous patch was actually much longer than necessary. That's because originally I had followed that path of actually en-/decoding these characters, but then I realized that this might cause trouble with existing recording names that already contain an unescaped '#'. Now I realized that a much smaller patch should do the trick just as well, so here's a second try. Klaus -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vdr-1.3.46-recordingnames-2.diff Type: text/x-patch Size: 861 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/attachments/20060416/8ce89505/vdr-1.3.46-recordingnames-2.bin