Now to the feature request: Linux <=> Windows filename colon support
FFS version: 11.18 64bit
When syncing files between Linux and Windows filesystems, files that have a colon (:) in their name on Linux are not considered to be the same as their percent-encoded (%3A) counterpart on Windows:
- FFS_colon_1.png (40.69 KiB) Viewed 1207 times
Taking it one step further, copying those files from Linux to Windows causes the following error:
- FFS_colon_2.png (16.29 KiB) Viewed 1207 times
I'm not sure how that's supposed to work but another piece of software I use, WinSCP, does
: => %3A encoding when copying from Linux to Windows
%3A => : decoding when copying from Windows to Linux
Also found this behavior documented here:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-archive-sde/2.4.1.0?topic=tips-file-name-characters
> On Windows systems, files and directory names cannot be created with a colon (:). But if a file or directory name is created with a colon on a Linux or Mac operating system, then moved to a Windows system, percent encoding is used to include the colon in the name in the index.
