Special Characters in Level Filenames

Is there a reason why Bitfighter in-game won't support special characters in the level filenames? Ex: !, #, *, &, ., space, etc.

I can put those special characters in the filenames on my computer, then load the levels in-game by scrolling to the level or pressing tab-to-complete. But I can't actually type the special characters in the level selection menu. Zap! supported special characters in-game, so I now have hundreds of levels which are tricky to open... was the disabling of that in Bitfighter intentional design?

Furthermore, I think I found a bug? When pressing tab-to-complete in the level selection menu, quotation marks surround the entry. Quotation marks aren't typically part of a level's filename, so when pressing return a blank (new) level is loaded. So when I press tab-to-complete I have to delete the quotation marks first to get the level to load properly... kinda defeating the whole "quick shortcut" aspect.

I could've sworn I made a case for the latter in google code, but I couldn't find an for it. :/

Thanks!

[Skybax]

I'm pretty sure you did make a case for that, because I remember reading that somewhere. Maybe you couldn't find it cause they already fixed it for the next release?

[raptor]

sky_lark, could you please open an issue on our tracker? I've seen some of this before...

Thanks!

I am pretty sure the quotes only show up when there is a space or a special character in the file :X

Yes, you appear to be right fordcars.

Will do raptor!

[sam686]

There is some characters and some names that cannot be used. Windows have more restriction on filenames then other operating systems like linux and mac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#R ... _and_words

There can also be some other characters in file names: Çüââäàåçêëèïî Many of those which bitfighter font can't display at all.

[watusimoto]

This might provide some guidance:

http://superuser.com/questions/358855/what-characters-are-safe-in-cross-platform-file-names-for-linux-windows-and-os

So should we create a special list of allowed characters in BF file names ?

[watusimoto]

https://code.google.com/p/bitfighter/issues/detail?id=375&q=label%3A019a

Ok cool! Yeah, I was gonna ask why characters like ! weren't allowed.

uh sorry to bother you but can you add question marks back to hte list ik need it in a level title im working on ty...

[watusimoto]

No can do -- ?s are illegal in the Windows filesystem.

uh ! and ? are global characters?

those one should be at least allowed for grammatical reason not for the others though.

[watusimoto]

Try creating a filename with ! or ? in it in Windows and see what happens.