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Old 05-15-2010, 12:03 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
apostrophe is actually a reserved letter (single quote) in Linux so it is not too surprising that it caused a problem. Kobo should not release any books with illegal letters in them. It is possible to escape the illegal letters so maybe they will fix that in their firmware release.

Dale
If I heard this 10+ years ago, I'd agree with you, but it's not acceptable now-a-days. I don't even remember the last time I had issues with using apostrophe's when naming files on any of the linux distro's I play around with.

I would expect this kind of bug from 1st year comp.sci students, not commercial, production level code.


EDIT: Just a note, the apostrophe is an SPECIAL character in a linux shell, not the filesystem. Calling it illegal is not quite correct, and certainly wrong in terms of filenames.

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