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Valid file-name characters


Back in May (where I'm still trying to catch up) there was a discussion starting at http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-05/msg01041.html concerning a colon in a filename -- valid in *nix, not in Windows.
Also, we get repeated griping about the encoding of URI's in the local package cache.
Would you consider a patch that translated filenames containing special characters: the Cygwin user would see "aux:" but Windows would see "aux%??" (I don't recall the encoding of colon)?

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