Based on my experience, I agree with Vincent's statement. In fact, it has been my observation that even space chars are not a problem. If this helps: As part of experimenting bulk migration of documents from our MOSS site to XE and following the documentation of WebDAV, I did drag-n-drop of documents from MOSS document library folders into the appropriate "attachments\SpaceName\_D_\DocName" XE folder and found that underscore and spaces were preserved. Moreover, I could delete such attachments. Thanks, Milind ________________________________ From: Vincent Massol <[email protected]> To: XWiki Developers <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, April 6, 2010 10:03:50 AM Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Simple patch to enable/preserve underscore chars in attachment file names Hi Milind, On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Milind Kamble wrote:
Denis, I understand your point that XE being used globally, needs to support more than Ascii char set. While the new reference model matures, could you clarify if underscore in a file name would break the functionality under the current model where attachment name is used as a reference for attachments? If not, would it be possible to eliminate the stripping of just the underscore chars and push that fix in the next XE release -- I am OK with space chars getting stripped off.
I don't think that underscores are a problem even with the old "reference as string" code. Actually I don't even know why we're stripping them. Sergiu might know more. Any idea Sergiu? Thanks -Vincent
________________________________ From: Denis Gervalle <[email protected]> To: XWiki Developers <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, April 6, 2010 8:30:34 AM Subject: Re: [xwiki-devs] Simple patch to enable/preserve underscore chars in attachment file names
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 14:02, Guillaume Lerouge <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Milind,
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Milind Kamble <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi. I would like the dev community to evaluate this simple fix that will enable uploading of files with underscore chars in the file name when users perform the attach action. Our user community is quite impressed about the refreshing ease of use and the power, flexibility in their collaboration work flow made possible by XE. They would like to escape the tyranny of Microsoft-MOSS as early as possible and the main roadblock to do so is the stripping of space and underscores from file names which were created in a MS-Office centric environment.
I can't do much about your underscore problem (though I promise I'll poke the developer sitting right next to me so that he looks at it).
I was already aware of this issue, and I have had similar problemqs with attachment, not only with "_", but also with accentuated chars etc... Restriction on attachment names will be easier to be changed when the new model model using references will be fully in place, since attachment names are currently used as reference for attachments. Be sure I will take care to have it improve.
Denis
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