Comment 8 for bug 77657

yet another of the file name bugs....

please see the discussion in Bug #135320

also if you will take a look at this table http://www.asciitable.com/
you will see that on windows there are many valid extended characters.

Wouldn't it be much better to not mangle the names at all? just escape them and preserve their literal values.

It's all very fine and well for someone who is a unix only person to decree that he only cares about what will work for him. But what about the rest of us poor blokes who have to deal with file names that we have no control over?

on a gentoo linux system try creating a repository of /usr/share and see what happens....
answer it breaks and there is no way you can even think about changing any of those file names.

So why create such a repository? very simple, it's a great way to do security audits of your system.