On 15.04.2011 01:24, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 4/14/2011 6:00 PM, Jonathan Leffler wrote: >> Given that the second byte is in the range 0x40..0x7E (second para), and / >> is 0x2F, there >> shouldn't be a problem with Shift-JIS. That's not to say there isn't >> another codeset >> where there isn't a problem, but I don't think it is Shift-JIS and possibly >> not any of the >> main Japanese codesets. > Looking at the references to the EUC and Big5 encodings, it seems similarly > safe to > assume 20-3F are always the expected ASCII representations, while 0x40-0x7E > seem dicey. > > Thanks for this research, it saved me a ton of headaches!
This is what I remember from my messy days, too. Path handling would be a nightmare othewise, it's bad enough for poor Windows lusers that \ gets displayed as ¥ :) -- Brane
