On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 02:37:41 -0000 (UTC), Diesel wrote:
Lewis
Tue, 02 Jan 2018 16:23:51
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In message 66N
Diesel wrote:
Lewis
Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:10:59
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Diesel wrote:
Paul news
Sun, 17 Dec 2017 11:01:28 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:
Can I use é in 8.3 ? Probably not :-) They "hadn't invented
foreigners yet", when they did 8.3 :-)
This might surprise you to learn then...
8.3 will use 'extended ascii' aside from a couple. [g] And,
even those, as long as they aren't used as the first character
*can* be used. AFAIK, You can do the same with LFN based names.
How do I know this? Personal experience. I've done it. Even
went so far as to do something very sneaky and wrote a tiny
program that would not only rename folders/files to 8.3
extended ascii, but occasionally play with the hidden/system
bit settings for them as well. It did a fairly good job of
simulating a 'hard disk crash' to the untrained eye. 
However, many many characters will break in SMB, so ig you name
a file
SMB wasn't being discussed. Allowed characters in a filename
were. From the OS perspective, the majority of the extended ascii
character set is allowed and has been for a long long time.
Ignoring SMB issues when talking about Windows filenames is myopic
in the extreme.
As far as i'm concerned, SMB is just an attempt to side track the
original discussion. And I see no point in doing that. I made no
claims on suitability for sharing across a network using smb protocol
in the first place. I was simply discussing allowed/not allowed
characters in filenames from the OS perspective itself. And besides,
SMB isn't the only sharing protocol supported or in existance.
You have to understand something. If *you* had introduced SMB to the
discussion, Lewis would have accused you of moving the goalposts, but
since it was he who widened the scope, your objections are "myopic
in the extreme". Pretty amazing, but it's what he does. We see it here
in the mac groups on a regular basis.