Re: Name from NetSurf has underscores for percents

On 17 Nov, John Rickman wrote in message
<3a91789c56.John@rickman.argonet..co.uk>:

> NetSurf has output the file name as
>
> 34178186-talaj-hornyok-mez_C5_91gazdas_C3_A1gi-earth-talaj-b
> ar_C3_A1zd_C3_A1k-f_C3_B6l_C3_B6tt-mez_C5_91-n_C3_B6v_C3_A9n
> y-_C3_BCltet_C3_A9si-a-vid_C3_A9ken-m/jpg
>
> but the underscores should be percent signs to code for letters with
> Hungarian diacritics in Unicode:
>
> 34178186-talaj-hornyok-mez_C5%91gazdas%C3%A1gi-earth-talaj-b
> ar%C3%A1zd%C3%A1k-f%C3%B6l%C3%B6tt-mez%C5%91-n%C3%B6v%C3%A9n
> y-%C3%BCltet%C3%A9si-a-vid%C3%A9ken-m/jpg
>
> whereupon it works into the apps.

Is % actually a valid character in a Fileswitch filename? It represents the
CSD, and is included in the reserved characters list, so I'd suggest not.

So NetSurf is correct to replace % with _ when saving to a RISC OS filing
system.

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