[rdiff-backup-users] What filename characters does Mac OS X support?

[Ben Escoto]

I'm trying to make rdiff-backup a little friendlier on Mac OS X now.
Does anyone know offhand what characters are allowable in a Mac OS X
filename?

I'm asking because I need to figure out exactly when we don't need to
quote characters.  As long as the source directory is non-empty (and
has a filename that has a letter in it), then we can tell whether that
directory is case-sensitive.  But it's harder to tell whether or not a
source (and thus read-only) directory supports characters like a colon
or a backslash.

So if Mac OS X supports everything except case sensitivity (and '/',
and NULL).  But if there is other support missing things could become
more complicated.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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