Image Capture and special characters in file names.

Hung up image capture yesterday: We tried to enter a date in the file name of the document we were scanning. It proceeded normally, but then did not save the file and image capture would not scan again until OS restarted.
Problem repeated until we discovered a slash in the file name box. Changed the file name and everything works now.
Software should either prevent user from entering special characters in the file name box, or properly handle the error and not hang up the application.

Hi,
Would mind providing a screenshot about how your Content Query Web Part rendering in your environment?
In my environment, it displays the filename which contains periods:
I would suggest you create a new page and insert a Content Query Web Part to perform the test again.
Feel free to reply with the test result or if there any progress.
Thanks
Patrick Liang
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Hi,
Would mind providing a screenshot about how your Content Query Web Part rendering in your environment?
In my environment, it displays the filename which contains periods:
I would suggest you create a new page and insert a Content Query Web Part to perform the test again.
Feel free to reply with the test result or if there any progress.
Thanks
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Mail.app hang if mail attachment have special characters in file name

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(_seb_) wrote:
> Gary White wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:15:04 +0100, "(_seb_)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> "ça alors: it's a déjà-vu"
>>>
>>> How can I encode this so it's valid as a
directory name, yet can be
>>> displayed as intended when the name is output to
the page.
>>> urlencode() does not do the job, neither does
htmlentities()...
>>
>>
>> What's wrong with:
>>
>> $l="ça alors: it's a déjà-vu";
>> print urlencode($l)."<br>\n";
>> print htmlspecialchars($l);
>>
>> Gary
>
>
> I know that, but what is the name of the directory? It
has to be a real
> directory name, not a string stored somewhere.
>
> What's a valid encoding for a directory named "ça
alors: it's a
> déjà-vu"? I can call a folder like this on my
Mac, but it won't work on
> any server...
>
>
>
PS: basically it's not a url encoding issue.
I can url encode "ça alors: it's a déjà-vu",
and pass it in a url query string. But my issue is not
with an url query string, it's with an actual URL, that is,
the actual name of the directory. It
can't be "ça alors: it's a déjà-vu". But I
want to allow the user to name their directory like that
if they want. So I need a way to encode this into characters
that can be used for an actual
directory on the server.
seb ( [email protected])
http://webtrans1.com | high-end web
design
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Special characters in file name of attachment...

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(_seb_) wrote:
> Gary White wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:15:04 +0100, "(_seb_)"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> "ça alors: it's a déjà-vu"
>>>
>>> How can I encode this so it's valid as a
directory name, yet can be
>>> displayed as intended when the name is output to
the page.
>>> urlencode() does not do the job, neither does
htmlentities()...
>>
>>
>> What's wrong with:
>>
>> $l="ça alors: it's a déjà-vu";
>> print urlencode($l)."<br>\n";
>> print htmlspecialchars($l);
>>
>> Gary
>
>
> I know that, but what is the name of the directory? It
has to be a real
> directory name, not a string stored somewhere.
>
> What's a valid encoding for a directory named "ça
alors: it's a
> déjà-vu"? I can call a folder like this on my
Mac, but it won't work on
> any server...
>
>
>
PS: basically it's not a url encoding issue.
I can url encode "ça alors: it's a déjà-vu",
and pass it in a url query string. But my issue is not
with an url query string, it's with an actual URL, that is,
the actual name of the directory. It
can't be "ça alors: it's a déjà-vu". But I
want to allow the user to name their directory like that
if they want. So I need a way to encode this into characters
that can be used for an actual
directory on the server.
seb ( [email protected])
http://webtrans1.com | high-end web
design
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direct=true
errors=0
log='C:\Configuración\SystemResource.log'
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Werner, thank you for replying to my post.
In my real application, I actually store the files in %TEMP%, which on Spanish and Portuguese Windows has "special" characters (e.g. '...\Administrador\Configuración local\Temp\'). In addition, you can have a user with the "special" characters in the name which will become part of %TEMP%.
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