Making safe file names

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 08 May 2013 21:11:28 -0500, Andrew Berg wrote:

> It's a thing (especially in witch house) to make names with odd glyphs
> in order to be harder to find and be more "underground". Very silly. Try
> doing searches for these artists with names like these:

Challenge accepted.

> http://www.last.fm/music/%E2%96%BC%E2%96%A1%E2%96%A0%E2%96%A1%E2%96%A0%
E2%96%A1%E2%96%A0
> http://www.last.fm/music/ki%E2%80%A0%E2%80%A0y+c%E2%96%B2t


The second one is trivial. Googling for "kitty cat" "witch 
house" (including quotes) gives at least 3 relevant links out of the top 
4 hits are relevant. (I'm not sure about the Youtube page.) That gets you 
the correct spelling, "ki††y c△t", and googling for that brings up many 
more hits.

The first one is a tad trickier, since googling for "▼□■□■□■" brings up 
nothing at all, and "mourning star" doesn't give any relevant hits on the 
first page. But "mourning star" "witch house" (inc. quotes) is successful.

I suspect that the only way to be completely ungoogleable would be to 
name yourself something common, not something obscure. Say, if you called 
yourself "Hard Rock Band", and did hard rock. But then, googling for 
"Heavy Metal" alone brings up the magazine as the fourth hit, so if you 
get famous enough, even that won't work.



-- 
Steven