Unicode Chars in Windows Path

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/2/2014 11:10 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Windows accepts both forward and backslashes in file names.
>
> Small clarification: The Windows *API* accepts both types of slash

To me, that is what Steven said.

> (you can open a file using forward slashes, for instance), but not all
> Windows *applications* are aware of this (generally only
> cross-platform ones take notice of this), and most Windows *users*
> prefer backslashes.

Do you have a source for that?

> So when you come to display a Windows path, you
> may want to convert to backslashes. But that's for display.

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Terry Jan Reedy