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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/doc/specialnames.xml | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml index 0192fc241..bc4b0440d 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/specialnames.xml @@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ in the Win32 API:</para> <para>Cygwin can't fix this, but it has a method to workaround this restriction. All of the above characters, except for the backslash, are converted to special UNICODE characters in the range 0xf000 to 0xf0ff -(the "Private use area") when creating or accessing files.</para> +(the "Private use area") when creating or accessing files by adding 0xf000 +to the forbidden characters' code points.</para> <para>The backslash has to be exempt from this conversion, because Cygwin accepts Win32 filenames including backslashes as path separators on input. |