Silly filenames in software roms
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 5:17 pm
MAME 0.218
I've noticed a few software rom filenames that have been giving me a little grief, doing various things.
Non ASCII - there are only 22, 7 of them are just European accents, the other 15 look like incorrect encoding.
Long - I'm classing long as > 180, only 5 of them with one being 228.
Forbidden - "what's my logic? (4am crack).dsk" has a question mark in it.
I can work round non ASCII (changing my cmd codepage on Windows) and long filenames (using \\?\C: on Windows).
And I know you can have question marks on other filesystems but I can't work round that on Windows. I've noticed it is distributed in ZIP with "?" replaced with "-".
Anyway my point is; Considering how few troublesome names there are, would it be worth outlawing non ASCII, long, and forbidden filesystem characters?
Sorry to be such a cry baby.
Attached is a list. (UTF8 with BOM)
Cheers
I've noticed a few software rom filenames that have been giving me a little grief, doing various things.
Non ASCII - there are only 22, 7 of them are just European accents, the other 15 look like incorrect encoding.
Long - I'm classing long as > 180, only 5 of them with one being 228.
Forbidden - "what's my logic? (4am crack).dsk" has a question mark in it.
I can work round non ASCII (changing my cmd codepage on Windows) and long filenames (using \\?\C: on Windows).
And I know you can have question marks on other filesystems but I can't work round that on Windows. I've noticed it is distributed in ZIP with "?" replaced with "-".
Anyway my point is; Considering how few troublesome names there are, would it be worth outlawing non ASCII, long, and forbidden filesystem characters?
Sorry to be such a cry baby.
Attached is a list. (UTF8 with BOM)
Cheers