Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Mac OS X eliminated the utility of having case sensitive filenames, and while annoying if your porting software, I have not heard much complaints about it and software has been fixed.

And that is much more extreme then having a filesystem mount option to stop tabs and newlines being used to define files.

It'll be future proof also, as much that matters. You don't make a whitelist of allowed characters, you make a blacklist of troublesome characters and allow everything else. If you create more troublesome characters, which is very unlikely, you can add them to the black list. (and even if it is going to happen it will be exceedingly rare) Any new characters that get made, or any new encodings, then they will just be allowed to slide on through.

I mean if you have a future encoding scheme that conflicts with a previously established and well known encoding such as ascii, then it is just too dumb to be supported by anybody.

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Here is a challenge:

Somebody write me a script that will go and count all the uses of tabs, <, >, and newlines in their file names on their systems...