* Sanitizing file names?
@ 2024-09-10 20:09 Christopher Howard
2024-09-11 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Christopher Howard @ 2024-09-10 20:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi, does Emacs/Elisp have any kind of API to help with sanitizing file names for the underlying OS/file-system limitations? Some of my projects involve older Windows systems that won't allow various characters in the file name like question marks and colons.
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* Re: Sanitizing file names?
2024-09-10 20:09 Sanitizing file names? Christopher Howard
@ 2024-09-11 2:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-11 16:41 ` Christopher Howard
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2024-09-11 2:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:09:50 -0800
>
> Hi, does Emacs/Elisp have any kind of API to help with sanitizing file names for the underlying OS/file-system limitations? Some of my projects involve older Windows systems that won't allow various characters in the file name like question marks and colons.
Is convert-standard-filename what you want?
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