Filenames with Win32 special characters (or: Interix filename compatibility)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 12 09:37, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
> > open/save/edit them normally with any app.  That is what intrigued me
> > about \x0331, in that it translated to plain _ in cp1252 so that the
> > files remained totally accessible to any app.
> 
> Wait.  What am I saying?  This conversion will only happen in one
> direction, so of course when an ANSI app tries to open "A_B_C_.txt" it
> will fail.  Why did I think that would work?  I could have sworn though
> that I had a working testcase but now that I try it again it fails.

Weird.  I could simply open and even save content to these files using
Notepad.


Corinna

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