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