path name rules

[Olivier Galibert]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:10:09AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> If we allow all characters, it will be a big pain in the butt since
> paths will have to be escaped wherever they are _used_ (in html, shell
> scripts, language bindings, etc.) So it's a whitelist of characters and
> paths have to be escaped when they are _created_.

Any reason to only have 63 characters instead of the sometimes way
more useful 64 (or more)?

In any case, it's a little surprising that something trying so hard to
look like a filesystem does not accept the same charset as
filesystems, but heh.

  OG.