> On 03/14/2011 07:55 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > The question is how to best handle it: punt immediately, or just treat it
> > as a single-byte character and move on.
>
> I vote single-byte character; after all, it's possible for a filename to
> contain that character, regardless of what your locale may be.
Oh, it does do that. I meant in the context of attempting to convert the
entire string to a wide-char string. If the wide-char string conversion
fails, the globbing engine treats it as a sequence of single bytes. There
are efficiency improvements that can be made there, though.
Chet
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