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Date:	Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:51:11 +0200
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Subject:	Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020
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Il 2023-04-14 22:40 Corinna Vinschen ha scritto:
> This is really tricky.  A new mount point flag could be used to 
> override
> this behaviour on a per path basis.  One problem is, the unicode ->
> multibyte conversion when evaluating a symlink is done before it's 
> clear
> where the symlink target is.  Only the string is converted and it might
> be a relative path, so the code doesn't know where the target ends up.
> And that's probably not all.

To tell the truth, it is such a corner (and infortunate) case that I 
would not care if the workaround does not work for symlinks.

> Is it really worth to add code to support a long deprecated Windows
> service?

Yeah, I understand your point. I am not in the position to evaluate if 
it would be worth.
Maybe a special case for only U+F020 (the most common "strange" char I 
see) can be considered?

Thanks.

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