[Zope] File objects with illegal characters

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 29 Aug 2005, at 16:13, Peter Bengtsson wrote:

> What is the best way to deal with file uploads with illegal  
> characters?
> I have no problem stripping the filenames such that "_Peter[1].doc"
> becomes "Peter1.doc" before it's manage_addFile'ed.
> But suppose I want to maintain the exact filename as it was on the
> harddrive, how do you deal with that?

What is the use case?

If a filename is illegal as a URL then that's that. All you could  
possibly do would be to stick the illegal name into another attribute  
and show it as additional piece of information for the content. You  
cannot make an illegal filename legal as a URL for download, unless  
you hack the regexes in CMF/Zope and just disregard interoperability.

jens