bug#6339: url-filename => "/c:/some/file.txt"

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:59, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 02:40, Lennart Borgman
> <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but please remember if you make that interpretation (which I hope
>> is the correct one) then "c:/some/file.txt" is an absolute local file
>> name in URL file name syntax.
>>
>> So if we hold on to that interpretation then maybe we should say (and
>> document ;-) that url-filename returns such a file name and that it
>> needs to be translated to the actually used systems file syntax to be
>> used there.
>>
>> This would be an incompatible change from the current (faulty)
>> behaviour, but I think it would be the best.
>
> Isn't that what I've been saying all along?

If you say so ;-)