Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/16/06 07:04

Scripsit Neredbojias:

> I think it's the dashes (hyphens) in the filename,

What makes you think so? I've never seen them cause trouble on web pages. I
presume you're referring to the ASCII hyphen, i.e. hyphen-minus; other
dashes and hyphens surely cause problems.

Hyphens cause problems when URLs are presented in print media, since word
processors and typesetting programs typically treat a hyphen as allowing a
line break after it, resulting in ambiguities (is the hyphen at the end of a
line part of the URL or not).

> although having
> capitals and constructs like "%20" probably isn't a good idea,
> either.

They may confuse people, but technically they're safe.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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