What character to separate words in filenames? Dashes? Periods? Underscores?

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Published on 2010-03-06T07:42:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/04 10:33 UTC
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This question isn't about a specific programming language, but more about general best practices.

What characters are best (greatest compatibility over programming languages, OSs, file systems, etc.) to separate words in filenames?

For example:

file.name.txt
file_name.txt
file-name.txt
FileName.txt
filename.txt

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