[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] from DivX, Part 2: Multifile source

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 05:47:59PM +0100, Antoine Cellerier wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006, John Koleszar wrote:
> > Just to throw another idea out there, you could go to a double character 
> > delimiter like "::" which should be easy to differentiate from the x:\ 
> > windows syntax and isn't TOO bad readability/consistency wise. Still 
> > better than  parsing and stat()'ing each possible chunk, which seems 
> > like it would be required if you want to use a single delimiter and 
> > allow all possible characters in file names.
> 
> Can't you just use something like ? or any other weird character that
> people never use in filenames ?

This byte is a non-character to sane people who use utf8. It's only a
character to people with legacy latin1 locales.

Rich