Subject: Re: netatalk search volume
From: Chris Murley (murley@appindex.net)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 11:25:01 EDT
-Chris
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Christopher Murley
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On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 05:40:59 -0700 (PDT), jeff@sudjam.com wrote:
>
> [quotings rearranged :-/ ]
> > On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> >> You know that with MacRoman encoding there exists only one illegal char in a
> >> filename suitable for afp?
> >>
> >> It's the colon ":"
>
> > Yeah you are probably right. I did remove any string in a filename that
> > had ":hh" a colin with two hex characters afterwards. -j
>
> ":hh" is _not_ a hex value ("ff" aka 255 would be the highest ;-)
>
> Interesting though. Netatalk normally displays these characters in its
> MacRoman representation. In my eyes it is a violation of afp specs,
> displaying characters that can confuse an afp client. Would be better if
> Netatalk replaces these characters with another char (eg. ":c4") to map
> these illegal chars to 'friendlier' ones.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
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