diff --git a/doc/bugs/views_do_use_utf8_for_chars_that_does_not_need_to/comment_1_a6014d95b0ac0dc20e9495a717d6d615._comment b/doc/bugs/views_do_use_utf8_for_chars_that_does_not_need_to/comment_1_a6014d95b0ac0dc20e9495a717d6d615._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f025d1b2b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/views_do_use_utf8_for_chars_that_does_not_need_to/comment_1_a6014d95b0ac0dc20e9495a717d6d615._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2023-05-23T15:50:51Z" + content=""" +The character is actually `﹕` + +That is used in views because on windows colon is a special character +and putting it in the name of a viewed file would prevent checking out the +view. + +It would be possible to skip that on linux, but note that it also +escapes `/` on linux with a unicode equivilant (for similar reasons). + +Also, the linux executable can sometimes be run on a windows system through +WSL. I'm not sure how a `:` in a filename would be handled in that situation. +"""]]