Unprintable Chars, Chinese, Unicode Chars …įor some other practical issues such as Mac resource fork, icon files, “. And, for programing systems to work (database, language libraries, code repositories, etc), correct file names is critical. For example, saved HTML files have local links that relies on correct file names. You may think a few file name screw-up is ok. Name, your mom may saved files with question mark and slashes in them, May also happen often, such as arbitrary web pages youĭrag'n'dropped to your desktop over the years, some math files names may use theĪsterisk * and the slash / as part of the math formula in the file If you use an underscore character () at the beginning of a file/foldername, the file/folder will be a hidden file/folder. You cannot start a file/foldername with a period character. ![]() Note that the VERTICAL LINE | (U+007C) char is not allowed on Windows. You cannot use the period character at the end of a file/foldername. You may think that these weird chars doesn't happen inįor examples, Mac OS X Adium chat client, save its chat log's filenames like this: 233598025 (2004|10|29).html Depending on what tool you use to transfer the file, the tool may stop dead, or change the file name in different ways. ![]() You'll have problems transfer it from Mac to Windows.
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