On 4/10/2014 14:20, Eric Blake wrote:
is BOUND to go wrong. The expression
~a/b/file
is NOT requesting 'file' within user 'a/b's home, but 'b/file' within
user 'a's home.
Excellent point.
Doesn't that also argue against backslash, due to the DLL's attempts to
automatically cope with DOS paths?
Once you exclude all characters that neither the shell nor the DLL nor
Windows will interpret specially, what's left? According to TLDP[*],
nothing.
Soooo....emoji? :)
[*] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/special-chars.html
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