Hello, fellow members.

Recently, I had published a couple of new submissions relating to Moxwel's InventorySense UI work. Before the uninitiated wonder, CC-By-SA 4.0. I am within legal parametres as defined by Creative Commons provided by the original work.

So uhm...

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This bloody thing. The section sign. I saw a submission on PMC use it to define colour information in filenames, thought it was really, really neat. Turns out, GitHub doesn't like it. In fact if I were to use some way of interacting with my GitHub repositories for downloading anything with this sign, it ends up all butchered and useless to use as a means of distinction in filenames, unless I commit wholly to Planet Minecraft for downloads and create a submission for every piece of work I want to use this symbol in.

I'm not doing that. Mainly because I like to do all of my management on GitHub and it would not be fair, in the least to overwhelm Planet Minecraft with a bunch of recoloured works. (Also, because I do not know how to make multiple versions of the same work available for download so some help about that would be appreciated so I know using PMC entirely can be an option.)

So what's the point behind this post? What am I apologizing for? I lied. I lied about GitZip preserving filenames when using it to browse my GitHub repo and download my works using it. I've been trying to seek a way of preserving the section sign using download services for GitHub — neither DownGit, nor GitZip as an extension does it.

Web versus extension

See, here's the real strange thing. GitZip the website does what I want it to. For some strange reason, even though GitZip's web portal and extension do the same exact thing, only the web portal preserves filenames, which means special symbols — like the section sign — are kept. But that would mean visiting a URL outside of both Planet Minecraft and GitHub to use an unfamiliar web interface, for the sake of keeping fancy coloured filenames if I didn't want to publish all of my works on PMC.

I don't care about this anymore. Later on today (three hours into the new day where I am), I'm going to undo these changes and provide files with plain file names — nothing special that Minecraft can render. Unless I can find an easy, convenient way to make it so use of GitHub means special characters aren't butchered into an HTML soup, that's how it will remain from hereon, and I apologize for any difficulty in using my works because of it.