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Provide Substitute Characters for the Forbidden ones

Open roboyoshi opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

roboyoshi avatar Jul 02 '20 13:07 roboyoshi

This is a list of NTFS and Google Drive-friendly ASCII chars that can be used to substitute some of the forbidden ones:

Remember you need to hold down the ALT key on your keyboard while you type the number with the numpad.

7		•
16		►
17		◄
26		→
27		←
249		∙
250		·
254		■
179		│
221		▌
222		▐
219		█
174		«
175		»
240		≡

also the semi-colon (;) can be used instead of a colon (:). It looks a little weird, but it's a safe alternative anyway.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

I will need to check every code on that page to see which ones are safe to use.

If you or somebody knows other codes, please share.

tsinataseht avatar Jul 03 '20 00:07 tsinataseht