[TV Library] [Linux] Backslash character treated incorrectly about xbmc HOT 9 CLOSED

No issue reports on github.
Please use the XBMC forum.

Close please

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Is it safe to presume you mean the Trac linked on the forums? A forum is not the right place for a bug report.

I would also suggest the issues tab be disabled on here, if this is not the place for issues.

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Yes.
The forum is best place to discus bugs to be verified.

Issues can't be disabled because that would disable the functionality using the milestones on github that are used for PR merge windows

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Besides that XBMC is meant to be system independant so treating the \ on one system as valid character isn't something that should be done IMO

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I would respectfully disagree, with the sole reason that the exact
file paths used on Linux and OS X are already not assured to be
compatible with Windows. You can't just copy the full database and
expect it to work, as they have different reserved characters (all
other characters that are not permitted on Windows are accepted fine
by XBMC Linux as it currently stands, this is the only exception). Not
to mention the fact that such a change would break backwards
compatibility with a large number of people using those reserved
characters on non-Windows platforms.

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Martijn Kaijser
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Besides that XBMC is meant to be system independant so treating the \ on one system as valid character isn't something that should be done IMO

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Until we drop windows style paths fully. We can't fix this since there would need to be special casing in a large amount of places.

I'm for dropping c:\path and only allowing file:///path but that will be a problematic change.

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There really isn't a problem here seeing as you're misusing the punctuation mark...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#In_English_text

vs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash

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While I agree it's "not correct" to name something like this, there
are episodes in the default scraper that are named with backslashes
included, since I want file names to match the library name for
organization purposes.

Regardless, the character is valid on the file system, so I'd argue it
should be valid in programs using the filesystem. No matter the
language convention or any arbitrary limitation on a different
filesystem. It's simply a matter of something being possible, or it
not being possible, not everything recognizes it as valid except one
arbitrary program. (And I do believe XBMC is the only program my
entire media server that doesn't recognize this character).

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Trent Nelson
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There really isn't a problem here seeing as you're misusing the punctuation mark...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#In_English_text

vs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash

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That's what makes XBMC so special :)

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