On 01/07/2008, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
If we allow lowercase letters, and add a restriction that the first character has to be a letter or number
It would be nice to allow the first character to be an underscore. It's an 'allowable' character. We should probably also disallow file names which only differ by case. Although, they'd probably show up pretty quickly so maybe we don't need to.
but otherwise stick with ISO-9660:1999, 1.35.0 would have 773 violations. See http://mysite.verizon.net/beman/temp.html
If we also allow '-', that would cut the violations to 130. See http://mysite.verizon.net/beman/temp1.html
A lot of those violations are in the boostbook based documentation. I've already changed it so that it won't generate filenames with spaces and can do the same for other characters - the filenames will be less useful but that's not really a problem. I've also been working on a better method of generating the file names, which can limit the length of file and directory names. It's in the doc branch (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/46022/) and I was planning on including it in 1.37 (if no one objected). Daniel