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Sivar
16th December 2004, 21:18
Older versions of AutoGK supported commas in the input directory and file names, but more current versions do not. This is absolutely maddening when trying to encode a series like Babylon 5 which has a number of episodes with commas such as "The Long, Twilight Struggle" and "Rumors, Bargains, and Lies"

A comma is a perfectly valid character both in Windows and Unix filesystems (as are square brackets, which are also mysteriously banned), so I do not see why they are considered invalid, especially when they worked fine before.
Is there a way to edit the "invalid character list" short of using a hex editor?

jggimi
16th December 2004, 21:33
Moved to development forum.

len0x
17th December 2004, 11:53
Because AutoGK uses different applications via CLI there are many issues that may arise (comma as parameters separator, bracket are used by DGIndex etc.) I do not have time to support all proplems related to that, so I just disabled most of special characters (it might be overkill in some cases, but I wanna play it safe). So when it comes to: user spending 10 sec to rename the file after the job is done vs me having to constantly try to debug problems related to filenaming I chose the second one.