[cirthaya]

Different subsystems, layers and libraries in Windows do have different interpretations of what characters to allow in a filename, what permission bits to obey, how to behave on different filesystems, etc. It's a huge mess. You can e.g. create invisible, undeleteable files by using characters the explorer doesn't like.

[tracker1]

What's funny is when the Mac guy names a file on a network share that nobody else in the office can access or rename.