<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Joel Hammer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joel@hammershome.com">joel@hammershome.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There are some situations where hyphens are forbiden or<br>
ambiguous characters.<br>
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For example, you may think you have hit the hyphen button,<br>
but is that a dash or a hypen? They are different. How<br>
can you be sure how all operating systems will handle<br>
this ambiguity?<br>
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Or, as you are processing files, say loading a bunch of<br>
file names into a wordprocessor, will the word processor<br>
think that symbol is a dash or a hypen.<br>
<br>
Underscores are safer.<br>
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Joel<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div>I tend to use underscores, unless I include a date, such as: This_file_asof_2008-12-25<br><br>Joel, can you elaborate on the hyphen vs/ dash being different? <br>
<br>In the printing world, you may have hyphens, en-dash, em-dash, etc which are all different. But, AFAIK, computer keyboards can only provide a single value for a dash/hyphen. Am I mistaken?<br><br>~Rick<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:58:38AM +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
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> Does anyone known good reasons to prefer hyphens to underscores or vice<br>
> versa in file names?<br>
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> Angel Tsankov<br>
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