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Could say the same about spaces and a plethora of systems fail catastrophically on those.

• nilved 10y ago
  Not any well-written ones. Software should be able to handle all valid names on the platform. For Unix, any name that excludes forward slashes and null bytes.
  • tamana 10y ago
    And what about file bundles that are deployed cross-platform?
    • nilved 10y ago
      They can only target the common denominator of file names. It would be safe to avoid all special characters.