Seems like treatment of NTFS ADS (foo:bar) changed between 1.5 and 1.7 but not mentioned in What's Changed

[Andy Koppe]

2009/11/16 aputerguy:
> Well I'm using Putty to ssh into my Windows machine running cygwin 1.5
> When I do tab completion on the "foo:bar" file it completes to
> foo\357\200\272 but perhaps the Unicode is coming from the Putty terminal
> (which is set to UTF-8) though somehow bash is preserving the encoding that
> gets translated that way...

Right, it was pasting into the UTF-8-configured PuTTY then that
translated the U+F03A to \357\200\272. As far as Cygwin 1.5's bash is
concerned, that's just a bunch of bytes.

Andy

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