Jens Seidel wrote:
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 01:57:15PM -0400, Beman Dawes wrote:
We need to decide what our standard is first. ISO-9660:1999 limits:
Do we also want to drop the "File names shall not have more than one dot" and/or "Directory names shall not use dots at all" requirements?
Have we have ever had a complaint about multiple dots in file or directory names?
Isn't it standard these days to enable both Rock Ridge (Unix) and Joliet (Windows) extensions for ISO-9660? Both extent the list of valid filenames (and length of a filename).
I think the answer is probably "yes" for most systems. The concern is really the less common systems, like OpenMVS. I think we should allow hyphens in names, drop the above dot requirements, and allow underscores (but not hyphens) as the first character of names. But I'd like to give others a chance to comment before going ahead. --Beman