[Gnu-arch-users] Re: =tagging-method and non-portable filenames

[John Goerzen]

Stig Brautaset <address@hidden> writes:

>       # unrecognized. If they are directories, traversal does _not_
>       # descend into those directories. Currently, the illegal
>       # characters are *, ?, [, ], \, space, and tab. (The set of
>       # illegal characters may shrink in future releases.)
>
> IIRC these are hard-coded dependancies and no change you make in the
> =tagging-method file will allow the filenames to contain e.g. spaces.

Apparently these both underestimate the problem.  See:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182581

It appears that characters such as umlauts and other high-ascii or
UTF-8 characters are also banned, though there is no escaping issues
with them.

-- John