[Jprogramming] The Accessible Dictionary

[bill lam]

mer, 03 Feb 2010, Boyko Bantchev skribis:
> On 3 February 2010 12:17, bill lam <bbill.lam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think not ':' could be a legal character for name of files in linux
> > or window.
> 
> I don't know the precise rules for Windows, but in a Unix,
> file names can contain any and all of the 256 characters,
> i.e. byte values.  In today's Unicode Linuxes such as Ubuntu,
> a file name can contain anything Unicode.

You correct. colon (for designating drive) is illegal only in window.
Linux allow byte values except '/' (as path separator) and null.

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