Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

[Scott Kitterman]

On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:42:28 +0200 Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan at club.fr> 
wrote:
...
>Hope Ubuntu is more modest than you appear to see it. Serve the user,
>not the ideal technology you dream of in which every character is
>supported in filenames. When you're working on documents, being able to
>read it in a conference from your USB key is much more important than
>being allowed to keep a '?' in its filename, isn't it?

First, many external storage devices come pre-formatted with FAT32.  It is 
not at all a Windows specific F/S.

Second, my concern isn't with files I manually name (I'm pretty unlikely to 
use file names that wouldn't be legal under any OS), but systems that 
generate files/names automatically.  I would find it frustrating to get a 
big stack of "Are you sure" warnings when copying my maildir files (default 
storage method for my chosen MUA) to a USB stick.

Scott K