<font color="#333333"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Hi<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Emre Erenoglu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erenoglu@gmail.com" target="_blank">erenoglu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I am using Linux & Windows and all my filenames are fine with some accented & special characters which are not present in English alphabet</blockquote>
</div><br>Think about storing a file named this:<div><br></div><div> This: is a \ stoopid example?<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Works just fine on Linux - you can store the ":", "\" and "?" just fine.</div>
<div>Not so on Windows - the ":" is a problem.</div><div>And OS X will translate the ":" to a "/" (for display).</div><div><br></div><div>And that example shows problems that exist even WITHOUT UTF-8.</div>
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