[SOLVED] Valid characters for filenames

Jerry Mcguire · 10-24-2010, 09:06 PM

I did some search on Google, trying to find out any limitation on the filename constitution, but little did it return.

I'm talking about ext3/4. Are there any official references about the ranges of ASCII characters can be used in these file systems?

AlucardZero · 10-24-2010, 09:33 PM

everything but forward slashes, I believe? It is certainly not limited to the 128 ASCII characters.

chrism01 · 10-27-2010, 05:08 AM

This is a good summary http://www.linfo.org/file_name.html

DavidMcCann · 10-27-2010, 11:24 AM

What's allowed and what's a good idea are not always the same thing! The best rules, to ensure that names are always handled correctly by software, are

1. use letters and numbers where-ever you like
2. use the hyphen, underscore, or period only inside a name, not at the beginning
3. don't use anything else

Jerry Mcguire · 10-28-2010, 03:18 AM

Thank you all.