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Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Review of Nowide (Unicode) starts today
From: Frédéric Bron (frederic.bron_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-06-19 19:40:52


> This came up at C++Now last month. My understanding, from talking to
> people who seem to know about this, is that such filenames are considered
> valid by Windows. To issue an error in such a case means not allowing
> users to access files that Windows sees as well-formed.

but who/what needs ill-formed filenames? For what reason?

Frédéric


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