[vdr] VDR 1.5.3: UTF-8 vs. ExchangeChars()

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 06/12/07 23:09, alexander-riedel at t-online.de 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] 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.