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Re: Unicode Chars in Windows Path

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Marko Rauhamaa wrote:

> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Didn't know that. More importantly, I had thought forward slashes were
> valid file basename characters, but Windows is surprisingly strict about
> that:
> 
>    < > : " / \ | ? * NUL
> 
> are not allowed in basenames. Unix/linux disallows only:
> 
>   / NUL
> 
> In fact, proper dealing with punctuation in pathnames is one of the main
> reasons to migrate to Python from bash. Even if it is often possible to
> write bash scripts that handle arbitrary pathnames correctly, few script
> writers are pedantic enough to do it properly. For example, newlines in
> filenames are bound to confuse 99.9% of bash scripts.

That doesn't bother me much as 99.8% of all bash scripts are already 
confused by ordinary space chars ;)

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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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