Possible to enforce file name characters in OS X?

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Gareth

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Hi,

I'm looking for a way to encourage our Mac users not to use characters in file names that are illegal in Windows etc to try and reduce the number of problems we have moving files around etc.

Does anyone know of a procidure or utility that would enable us to configure OS X such that the system will not allow certain characters (you know the ones ;) to be used when naming files?

Many thanks,
Gareth
 
You could probably use an applescript event that triggers on file creation, and scans the filename of the created file. It could pop up a warning about the expected trouble, and suggest they change the name...

I'm afraid I don't know any applescript, so I can't help you there.
 
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