[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Handling ":" in Resource names

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Trey,

It seems to me ":" isn't permitted by Eclipse nor on Windows...


Trey Anastasio wrote:
> How can we handle colons in resource names?  We received content with 
> a URL encoded file name from the server.  We need to create a file 
> resource with the given name.  These file names may contain colons. 
> Naturally Eclipse handles the colon as a newline, thus truncating 
> everything from the colon onward.
>
> I didn't notice any facilities in core.resources to handle this scenario.
>
> Suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Thanks.