Re: Feature request - base64 Filename Safe Alphabet

[Andreas Schwab]

Gabriel Barazer <address@hidden> writes:

> On 04/29/2008 4:47:53 PM +0200, Bo Borgerson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> tr '+/' '._' => hidden files
>>> tr '+/' '-_' => awkward option clashes
>>> tr '/' '_' => not POSIX portable
>
> AFAIK, POSIX filenames allow any character except the slash character and
> the null byte.

That is actually a Unix property.  For a portable POSIX file name the
alphabet is much more restricted: [A-Za-z0-9_.-], without leading
hyphen.

Andreas.

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