> From: Paul Smith <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:41:01 -0500
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> 
> Since an escaped character is just that character, "\f" is just "f", and
> the expected result is "\foobar".

But on Windows, `\' is a directory separator character, so if "\f"
would result in just "f", the luser who uses backslashes in file names
would lose.  Thus this ``feature''.

Mark, is there some real-life situation where this gives you trouble?
If so, can you please describe that situation?


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