[tz] zic tweak to warn about non-ASCII in filenames

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Thu Jun 26 16:31:39 UTC 2014


On 2014/06/26 08:58 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Tim Parenti <tim at timtimeonline.com> writes:
> 
>> If you allow dot, you'll want to add checks that "." and ".." are not used
>> as file name components.
> 
> And it shouldn't start with a dot.
> 
> Andreas.

Trailing dots are a bit iffy as well, at least on Windows, where any
trailing sequence of dots and spaces will get stripped (except when UNC
paths are used).

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