Re: [hatari-devel] Character conversion for filenames in GEMDOS HD emulation

[Troed Sångberg <troed@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know anyone in Sweden who didn't use Swedish umlauts in filenames. They could be entered in regular GEM dialogs, IIRC, and worked just fine.

Emulate the system, not the spec ;)

/Troed

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Max Böhm <mboehm3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Thomas,

> Umlauts are not valid characters in GEMDOS file names. See
> http://mikro.naprvyraz.sk/docs/GEM/GEMDOS.TXT for example for a
> list of valid characters. So if you have files with umlauts in
> their names on your host filesystem, you should rather rename
> them there first before using these directories with Hatari.

That is the specification, but on the other hand it is possible to create
files with special characters with GEMDOS functions.
Actually all my files with Umlauts have been created on the Atari ST
itself through Atari applications (e.g. 1st Word Plus) and not on the host
system. And all these files work if I use a harddisk image. In my view the
user experience would be more consistent if the GEMDOS emulation
would support it too.

Max