• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    Unicode in filenames? Are you crazy?!

    Okay that was /s to some extent but I gotta rant, I’m totally convinced that there’s still new software today that completely trip over themselves when files or paths have non-ASCII characters, or sometimes even a space. Incompetence didn’t go anywhere.

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      5 months ago

      I still use underscores for filenames, basically muscle memory at this point

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        5 months ago

        Spaces in file names will always be fiddly though. It’ll work, but it’ll still be wrong, because arguments are space separated, and having spaced file names totally messes with that.

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          5 months ago

          I try to just always put files names or paths into quotes in CLI or tie it to a variable in programming. This way it also accepts spaces and knows how to separate it from arguments.