On 06/12/07 23:09, alexander-riedel@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > also * ? ! I was wondering already about "Invalid characters *include*", which to me means that there are probably more than these. Ok, so far we have . " / \ [ ] : ; = , and * ? ! However, '!' is in the list of characters that can be used "as is" right now, so where do you take it from that this character is also invalid? Also: the '.' is perfectly ok, unless at the end of a directory name. So, from my point of view the characters to be exchanged to "#XX" are " / \ [ ] : ; = , * ? and . at the end of a directory name Any others? Klaus "The day Microsoft invents something that doesn't suck, it will be a vacuum cleaner." - anon > -----Original Message----- > Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:28:10 +0200 > Subject: Re: VDR 1.5.3: UTF-8 vs. ExchangeChars() > From: Stone > To: "VDR Mailing List" > > > > On 6/12/07, KLAUS SCHMIDINGER wrote: The function ExchangeChars() > in VDR/recording.c converts characters > that can't be used in file names on Windows to "#XX", where XX is > > the hex code of the character. > > This was simple when VDR only worked with single byte character sets, > but now that it can handle UTF-8 this needs to be changed, too. > > Currently it has a list of characters that can be used "as is", > and converts everything else to "#XX". I guess it is better > to convert any "disturbing" characters to "#XX" and leave the > rest untouched. However, this requires that we know exactly > which characters can't be used with Windows. > > Does anybody have that kind of information? > Or should this be done completely different? > > Note that I don't use this feature myself, so unless there > is some input from others, I won't be changing anything here. > I use this FAT feature so I can mount my linux drive on windows and > stream movies with vdradmin to my windows machine. I have noticed > that VDR might currently be renaming a little more than is required. > Invalid characters include: . " / [ ] : ; = , > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/142982 [2] Regards. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
