Index: AE/Installer/trunk/source/main_window.cpp
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--- AE/Installer/trunk/source/main_window.cpp	(revision 391)
+++ AE/Installer/trunk/source/main_window.cpp	(revision 392)
@@ -58,4 +58,15 @@
 #include "boost/date_time/date_parsing.hpp"
 #include "boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp" 
+
+string escapePath(string input) {
+	
+	string output;
+	string escape_me = "& ;()|<>\"'\\#*?$";
+	for(int i = 0; i < input.size(); i++)  {
+		for(int j = 0; j < escape_me.size(); j++) if (input[i] == escape_me[j]) output += '//';
+		output += input[i];
+	}
+	return output;
+}
 
 int globalizeData(void)