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You started to save your document. There are a few
things to know about that and some rules to follow. |
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There are a few general rules which help to
overcome problems still existing between the "Windows" and "Unix" world (and, of course, "Apple" does also contribute. |
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Always write all file names in
one kind of letter cases. Either EVERYTHING IN CAPITAL LETTERS or
everything in lower case letters. Lower case letters are to be preferred. |
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The reason for this is, that Unix
discriminates between the two types, whereas Windows does not. File names like HomePage.html or homepage.html are all the same to Windows, but are
different for Unix. Since your pages sooner or later are routed through a Unix
machine, not discriminating between upper and lower case letters invites
trouble. |
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This is bad enough for normal PC usage, but it is worse for HTML,
because the file names are also used for the hyperlinks. Links that work here, may not work there
if one machine doesn't care about lower and upper cases and another one
does. |
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Microsoft, of course, is aware
of this and since they don't want you to use any other system, some Windows
operating systems change your cases all by themselves and in an unpredictable
way. This is not easy to deal with; a good idea (with certain draw backs) is to
automatically convert file names to e.g. lower case letters whenever files are
moved. |
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Never, never
ever use special symbols (like the German "Umlaute" ä, ö, ü) in file names.
Your PC and your program might be familiar with those
symbols, but others are not - for sure. |
