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cURL question:
I am using cURL to send a filename, the path to which contains commas (,)
eg: x:\images\SomeActorName (Alias1, Alias2)\imagename.jpg
cURL internally interprets this comma as the delimiter between two filenames, but in this context it's only one file. So naturally the transfer, and any form <input>s after this field fail.

I have tried using --form-string instead of -F, but get the same results.
...but perhaps I don't understand the usage properly.

Is there a way to force cURL to disregard the comma in the path/filename? or should I just be avoiding commas in filenames at all cost?
(previously I had decided to avoid using hyphens (-) in filenames because of similar parsing error reasons... but comma and hyphen are unfortunately the best...most intuitive... characters to use for alias delimiters like this)

I also disabled 8.3 filenames in the registry, so using A_LoopFileShortName is not really an option.

Best option is to NOT use commas.

If you're using Run you need to escape commas (`,).

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Titan, yeah I did that.
But it's cURL thats interpreting the comma, not ahk, so short of telling cURL to accept the string raw (which doesnt seem to be possible) i guess I'll just have to avoid commas in filenames (which is annoying, but easy).

If it interprets commas in quoted filenames, it looks like a bug. Or a limitation, of cURL or of Windows way of handling parameters.

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

I probably should have clarified earlier: cURL interprets commas as a delimeter between multiple filenames. So it's functioning correctly... it's just odd that there is no method (that i can see) of disabling it.
I guess the authors of cURL have never had to deal with files/paths containing commas.

I decided to just insert a message/abort to inform the user to rename the file before use. It's annoying, but is fine for now; I don't have a *lot* of files with commas in them.

Using --form-string doesn't seem to transfer the file properly, but I didn't experiment too much after i realised there would be very few files that caused a problem, and inserted the handler.

Ah, indeed, if that's the format of the whole quoted field... Indeed, some characters are legal but should be avoided, like those used to separate files in PATH variable, and so on. It can be , or ; and so on.
Maybe you can detect the comma and automatically rename the file. You can even rename it back after uploading the file...

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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")