i18n'ed file and directory names

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lbrtchx@gmail.com - 17 Feb 2008 01:59 GMT

Hi,
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You could tell I am a freaking Westerner ;-) and maybe to them this
is not an issue at all
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I was wondering how do you manage naming files and directories using
CJK languages, Arabic, Hebrew, ... if file systems would only take,
what?, LATIN-1 characters?
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I code in Java and I was wondering about best practices for using
file and directory names that could be used accross Windows, *nix and
MAC OS, specially if those file names are supposed to best match URLs
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Thanks
lbrtchx

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Roedy Green - 17 Feb 2008 12:40 GMT

> I was wondering how do you manage naming files and directories using
>CJK languages, Arabic, Hebrew, ... if file systems would only take,
>what?, LATIN-1 characters?

Windows and Linux take Unicode, with some magic reserved chars.

My rule. use A-Z a-Z 0-0 _ .

You are pretty safe that will work anywhere.

The problem is going to become more acute with global file sharing, in
much the same way local encodings became a problem with the Internet.
--

Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com

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lbrtchx@gmail.com - 22 Feb 2008 07:58 GMT

On Feb 17, 7:40 am, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:

> My rule. use A-Z a-Z 0-0 _ .

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even your rule, namely: [A-Z], [a-z], [0-9], "_", "."
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has its issues in OSs/FSs that do not fully take into account letter
case
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For Unix FILE.TXT and file.txt are two different files. Windows would
have issues dealing with such files in the same directory
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lbrtchx

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