Using a `#` char in a `File` Reference on a network drive cuts the `nativePath` / `url` before the `#`

[2jfw]

When pointing to a file on a network drive, which contains a # character in the file path or filename and when the reference begins with file:////, nativePath and url will be cut right before the #.

Attached below is a sample where this can be reproduced:

package
{

    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.filesystem.File;
    import flash.filesystem.FileMode;
    import flash.filesystem.FileStream;
    import flash.utils.ByteArray;

    public class HashtagInFileNameIssue extends Sprite
    {
        public function HashtagInFileNameIssue()
        {
            // "networkDrive.com" is a placeholder for an existing network drive, which you can access via Explorer (\\networkDrive.com)
            var filename1 : String = "file:////networkDrive.com/test/Hash File ! 123.txt"; // will work
            var filename2 : String = "file:////networkDrive.com/test/Hash File # 123.txt"; // will not work. File nativePath/url will be cut before "#"
            var filename3 : String = "\\\\networkDrive.com/test/Hash File # 123.txt"; // will work

            var valueToSave : String = "test";

            // Write to file
            var byteArray : ByteArray = new ByteArray();
            byteArray.writeUTFBytes(valueToSave);

            var newFile : File          = new File(filename2);
            var fileStream : FileStream = new FileStream();
            fileStream.open(newFile,
                            FileMode.WRITE);

            fileStream.writeBytes(byteArray);
            fileStream.close();
        }
    }
}

For filename2 :

file.nativePath will be: \\networkDrive.com\test\Hash File file.url will be file:////networkDrive.com/test/Hash%20File%20

Having a folder name with a # will cut the name of the folder in the same manner.

Assumption: I could imagine that the file://// will somehow trigger some kind of URI/URL parsing attempt where the # hashtag indicates something like an Anchor (HTML?) and gets ignored or cut. I'm not sure if this is working as intended.

[KarlSchumann]

Running into this too. We load local HTML and us anchor tags to scroll the user to a specific section.

if (dir.exists) {
    loadReference( paragraphReference);
}

protected function loadReference(bookmark:String):void
{
    // If a reference window is already open, close it.
    if (_refWindow !== null && _refWindow.initialized && !_refWindow.closed) {
        _refWindow.close();
    }

    var dir:File =  File.applicationDirectory;
    dir = dir.resolvePath("assets");
    dir = dir.resolvePath("html");
    dir = dir.resolvePath(courseIdentifier);
    dir = dir.resolvePath(referenceFileName);

    // Open a new reference window
    _refWindow = new HTMLWindow();
    _refWindow.title = "HTML";

    if((Capabilities.os.indexOf("Windows") >= 0)) {
        _refWindow.bookmark = bookmark;
    }

    _refWindow.htmlFilePath = refUrl;
    _refWindow.open();
}

On Mac the _refWindow.bookmark causes it to load a white screen