HELIOS Base UB User manual

A 1 Windows and Macintosh characters

The HELIOS file servers EtherShare, PCShare and WebShare all use Unicode UTF-8 characters for file and directory names. So there will be no problem with using special characters when working cross-platform.

However, there are 2 exceptions:

• You should not use a dot (".") or a space (" ") character at a name's end. This is not a HELIOS problem, - all HELIOS file servers can perfectly handle such file names - but Windows does not allow these characters.
• Do never use the caret ("^") or the pipe ("|") character anywhere in a file name. These characters would lead to severe problems in cross-platform file sharing.