Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

[Chris Jones]

Hi

Evan wrote:
> paths are slashes, while Windows has a considerable list (apostrophes,
> asterisks, etc).

The problem is that it doesn't have a list, there are multiple lists and 
they aren't documented.
NTFS will reject some filenames, win16/win32/win64/.net/etc. will reject 
others (as you have seen by Linux's ability to create files that Windows 
Explorer refuses to handle).

There is no canonical list of filenames to avoid on Windows.
See: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/11/03/941420.aspx

That alone makes this (imho) a basically intractable problem, unfortunately.

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Jones