In "save as"-dialogues, : (colon) turns into - (hyphen)?

ahoi.
in all "save as"-dialogues in os x 10.8, i cant use a : (colon) as character in the filename; instead it turns into a - (hyphen). is this wanted by apple? or am i the only one with this "problem"? i changed nothing in the settings...

The colon is an illegal character in Mac filenames. This is a historical carry-over from the pre-Mac OS X days when the colon character was used as a delimiter in paths, instead of the slash ('/') that is used by the current Unix-based system.

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I have to share this somewhere...
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