Unicode en dash (u"\u2013") Is Not Replaced By sanitize_filename about pathvalidate HOT 3 CLOSED

@kenlerner
Thank you for your feedback.

Could I ask what made you think Unicode dash is an invalid character for a filename?
Unicode normalization (NFC, NFKC, NFD, NFKD) would leave Unicode dashes as it is.

I understand that Unicode dashes are confusing for file names, but still, that is a valid character for file names.

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Python created an exception when trying to create a file when the filename had a unicode dash in it. Error was same as reported here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55867822/when-running-python-script-i-get-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC-instead-of-a-hyphen

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I can create files that name includes an unicode dash by Python.
If that exception happens only at a specific Python version, please upgrade Python or report the problem to the official Python team.

And the topic at the link does not seem to be a filename problem, just that they have mixed used ASCII-dash and Unicode-dash as dictionary keys.

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