Mitch Capper wrote:
> *With Path accidental separator detection*
> The windows path branch tries to add either forward or backward path
> separator support in windows.  Clearly \  is also the escape char so it is
> possible that there are places that A) windows paths that have escape chars
> used will fail, as it is treated as a dir separator (and I don't have \\
> detection etc).   B) there are places in code where '/' was being used as a
> flag or not a path separator that I mistook for a path separator and now
> '\' may have odd effects.

We certainly like to see fixes in this area.

If I have understood it correctly, the best way to handle file names on native
Windows is to
  - use '\\' as a directory separator when composing file names,
  - allow both '/' and '\\' when inspecting file names.

Bruno




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