Hyphens versus underscores

[Joel Hammer]

There are some situations where hyphens are forbiden or
ambiguous characters.

For example, you may think you have hit the hyphen button,
but is that a dash or a hypen? They are different. How
can you be sure how all operating systems will handle
this ambiguity?

Or, as you are processing files, say loading a bunch of
file names  into a wordprocessor, will the word processor
think that symbol is a dash or a hypen.

Underscores are safer.

Joel





On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:58:38AM +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone known good reasons to prefer hyphens to underscores or vice
> versa in file names?
> 
> Angel Tsankov 
> 
> 
> 
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