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		quotemstr on Dec 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (2011... That's not how UTF-8 works.

kalleboo on Dec 29, 2016 [–]

It is how UTF-16 (NTFS) does though.

quotemstr on Dec 29, 2016 | [–]

That doesn't count. Windows doesn't allow the 16-bit word 0x0007 to appear in filenames.

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