illegal charaters

[George Hester]

In Windows Explorer some characters cannot be used in file names. ; is one
and so is " I downloaded a file which does contains " in the file name. I
have copied this character so I can now use this character in file names.
How is that done other then saving a file name that already has that
character? I'd like to do the same thing with ; Thanks.

 

[Gary Smith]

I suspect that what you have is not a standard ASCII quotation mark
(hexadecimal 22), but another character that resembles it. Windows 2K and
XP allow the use of most Unicode characters in filenames, and that's
probably what you have. To find out exactly what you've got, paste the
character into Wordpad, place the cursor immediately after the character,
and press Shift-Alt-X (may be just Alt-X in XP). The character will be
transformed into its 2-4 character hexadecimal Unicode value -- 22 if it
really is a quotation mark.

For what it's worth, the Greek question mark, 0x37E, looks like a
semicolon and can be used in filenames. I personally don't think it's a
good idea to use characters that resemble those with syntactical
functions. The resulting confusion is bound to cause problems eventually.

 

[George Hester]

Hey you know what they did? They used '' not ". Thanks for the desciption
how to identify the ACSI code for a character.

 

[Gary Smith]

I never thought of paired single quotes. That's quite ingenious, possibly
even sneaky. Glad I could help.