From:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject:	Re: _fixpath bug?
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:11:13 GMT, dcasale AT my-deja DOT com wrote:

>In article <39C901A4 DOT 6CAF5846 AT softhome DOT net>,
>  djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>> dcasale AT my-deja DOT com wrote:
>> > I guess I have to change the forward slashes to backslashes in the
>> > output from _fixpath on my own, then.  *shrugs*
>>
>> While writing 3-to-5 lines function to do that does not
>> seem very hard, but why do you want to do it in the first
>> place? All library functions understand both cases.
>>
>> Laurynas
>
>Because my code parses pathnames manually, since it requires proper
>multibyte handling of pathnames containing characters with a backslash
>as the second byte.

The UTF-8 encoding guarantees that no byte of a multibyte character
will have the same encoding as a Basic Latin (ASCII) character.  If
(as Eli suggested) you start to implement UTF-8 support in libc, you
won't have any problem with embedded slashes.

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