RE: Filenames
2024-01-12, 15:01 (This post was last modified: 2024-01-12, 15:03 by Toby Nelson.)
2024-01-12, 15:01 (This post was last modified: 2024-01-12, 15:03 by Toby Nelson.)
(2024-01-12, 1:40)Travis Cobbs Wrote: I'm pretty sure that NTFS supports most of the characters that that article suggests avoiding. And I feel that the article is quite frankly disgusting to even imply that it's a good idea for any modern software to prevent their users from using all those characters in filenames.
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NTFS does have some character restrictions, but other filing systems are still being used that have more. Like FAT32 for example.
I don't think the article is hinting at restricting the user's choice. I really don't read it that way. The article is aimed at developers. Developers create and distribute files without user input. For example if I ship an application on Windows, it would be nice to know that any resource files that I choose to ship with that application are going to work across multiple filing systems, not just one.
In the same way, if I distribute ldraw files it would be nice to know they have a chance of working on a wide range of systems.