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Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path

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Date 2014-04-03 14:10 +1100
Subject Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Windows accepts both forward and backslashes in file names.

Small clarification: The Windows *API* accepts both types of slash
(you can open a file using forward slashes, for instance), but not all
Windows *applications* are aware of this (generally only
cross-platform ones take notice of this), and most Windows *users*
prefer backslashes. So when you come to display a Windows path, you
may want to convert to backslashes. But that's for display.

ChrisA

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Unicode Chars in Windows Path Steve <sreisscruz@gmail.com> - 2014-04-02 16:27 -0700
  Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-04-03 02:37 +0000
    Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-03 14:10 +1100
      Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-04-03 12:00 +0300
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-04-03 15:09 +0200
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path random832@fastmail.us - 2014-04-03 09:57 -0400
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 01:17 +1100
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 11:15 +1100
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 12:16 +1100
        Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 13:02 +1100
    Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-04-03 14:41 -0400
    Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-04-04 09:06 +1100
    Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it> - 2014-04-04 09:07 +0200
  Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-04-03 08:35 +0000

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