Wild and pathname

Hello,

The Mac file system allows the use of the Œ*¹ character in pathnames, but
lispworks doesn¹t.

(pathname ³/foo*.txt²) works, but
(probe-file (pathname ³/foo*.txt²)) gives an error.
A double backslash before the character seems to resolve the problem :
(wild-pathname-p (pathname ³/foo\\*.txt²)) => nil

Is it a safe solution for a non portable application to insert a double
backslash before any Œ*¹ character in namestrings or pathnames given by the
user ?

Thanks

Denis


-------------------------------------------------------
Denis Pousseur
70 rue de Wansijn
1180 Bruxelles, Belgium

Tel : 32 (0)2 219 31 09
Email :  denis.pousseur@gmail.com
Website : http://www.denispousseur.com
-------------------------------------------------------



_______________________________________________
Lisp Hug - the mailing list for LispWorks users
lisp-hug@lispworks.com
http://www.lispworks.com/support/lisp-hug.html