On 15.04.2011 06:20, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 4/14/2011 9:51 PM, Branko Čibej wrote: >> Woe to poor programmers who don't realize it can /also/ be the second >> byte of a multibyte Shift-JIS-encoded character. > According to what I've read on JIS, so /could/ 2F, except that none of > the JIS implementations use those code points. But their meaning does > change with the shift state, in theory 2F is not '/' but is undefined > for any actively used shift JIS encodings.
In any case I think you're moderately safe in assuming that / is / everywhere (except perhaps in EBCDIC but I'm just guessing here ... anyway that's a single-byte encoding). \ is another matter, but you asked about Unix so I guess it's irrelevant. -- Brane
