Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: monotone & CVS import

[Ori Berger]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> On the other hand, Windows filesystems will refuse to create files
> with ':'s in them...  (I wonder what happens if you have a multibyte
> UTF8 character, one of whose bytes is 0x3A == ':'...)

This can't happen. In a UTF-8 string, all non ascii chars have bit 7 
set. The first byte also has a distinct range from the other bytes 
in a multibyte string.

And it is done _exactly_ because of these issues.