Re: [RFC] Canonical Paths

=?UTF-8?B?QnJhbmtvIMSMaWJlag==?= <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> Now, if you want to do tricks like that: there are two single bytes
> that are invalid in UTF-8: these are 0xfe (11111110) and 0xff
> (11111111), and they also happen to cooperate quite happily with the C
> string functions. We could use one of those as the canonical path
> separator.

Hm, now that I read your message a second time I see that you propose
to change the _canonical path separator_ to 0xfe. Why would you want
to do that? Leaving the canonical path separator as '/' (as in my
proposal) avoids changing any code that deals with path separator at
all.

  // Marcus

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Received on Thu Aug 29 22:03:16 2002