I think allowing all characters and having an escape mechanism are two different problems? and dropping the backslash is another problem. And messages and objectboxes are yet another problem? since it is not possible until now to have a backslash in message boxes - which I still donŽt know why, there shouldŽnt be much backwards compatibility problems if all backslashes in the future are escape characters. allowing all characters is mainly a transportability problem between various character sets, but since it is already possible to use special characters in iem-guis, or when editing patches with a text-editor, that shouldŽnt be a big problem either. I think, I have seen backslashes in objectboxes. In that case there will be a backswards compatibility if the same escape mechanism is used in object boxes. So what I am talking about is only, that it would be nice to be able to output every string out of a message box. marius.
# ----- Original Message ----- From: "Piotr Majdak" piotr@majdak.com To: "IOhannes m zmoelnig" zmoelnig@iem.at Cc: pd-list@iem.at; "derek holzer" derek@x-i.net; libero.mureddu3@fastwebnet.it Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [PD] newbie question about "dropped"
Hi!
IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
but: whitespaces in filenames should be avoided anyhow on windows (the only place where i stumble across whitespaces now and then) you can use those weird "blabla~1.wav"-like filenames instead.
I think you refer to the good-old-DOS-days. They're over now ;-)
I think pd should support all characters the OS does. For Win >= 2000 there are some special characters like ,'+-; white space and some more. /:*?"<>| are not allowed.
But I know it's hard to implement keeping backwards compatibility to old patches and/or externals...
Piotr Majdak
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