[Zope3-dev] Escape Character Summary Table

[Jim Fulton]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > Why are people defending the comma so vigorously?
> 
> Only to try to keep options open.
> 
> Here's an informative page on DOS/Windows filenames:
> 
> http://www.delanet.com/~pparish/filename.htm
> 
> Plus signs are specifically allowed.  Colons are specifically
> disallowed, which rules out the "view::index.html" idea.  (PJE mentioned
> other reasons.)

The funny thing about this is, characters are attractive for deleimiters 
of Windows doesn't support them, because then you can count on some windows
client not trying to use them in a WebDAV file name. :) 

Jim

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