How should we handle a forward slash "/" in new file and rename dialogs?

[Mark]

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Frank Reininghaus
<frank78ac at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> 2012/11/2 Mark:
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Frank Reininghaus
>> <frank78ac at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Mark and Emmanuel,
>>>
>>> thanks for your investigations!
>>>
>>> 2012/10/30 Mark:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I'm doing a bit of dolphin bug triaging and encountered a few bugs
>>> > already that have something to do with a "/" in a filename. See [1]
>>> > and [2]. I can see a few possible solutions here.
>>> >
>>> > 1. "/" is forbidden.
>>> > --------------------------------------
>>> > Since "/" is a directory seperator it might just be unwise to even
>>> > consider using it in a filename. Also, if dolphin supports this it's
>>> > by far a certainty that others support it as well.
>>> >
>>> > 2. Replace "/" by "⁄".
>>> > --------------------------------------
>>> > It looks like a slash but is a divider sign. This might be a workable
>>> > solution but will change the user input (a "/") to the divider symbol.
>>>
>>> it seems that this currently happens when renaming with the rename
>>> dialog, even though I can't see why this could make sense. Before we
>>> discuss this further, could someone investigate where in the code the
>>> replacement happens and why it's done?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Frank
>>
>>
>> I've done a few hours (!!) of digging just to find where the / is
>> replaced by a ⁄ and couldn't find it within the dolphin sources.
>
> You should really not waste hours for such a trivial task. If you
> don't find it quickly in Dolphin, lib/konq and kdelibs are the next
> candidates. And if a manual search does not yield a result quickly,
> use grep. Running something like
>
> grep "'/'" * -r | grep replace
>
> in kdelibs yields only a few candidates, and you see quite quickly
> which is the right one.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank

Easy to say after i found it :p

Anyway.. How do we proceed?
Leave it as it is? That is for the initial question thus also affects
how close the bugs [1, 2]

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308597
[2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309192