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* pathnames.sgml: Add a note that ASCII SO handling isn't foolproof

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under all circumstances.
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2009-03-25 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* pathnames.sgml: Add a note that ASCII SO handling isn't foolproof
under all circumstances.
2009-03-25 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
* new-features.sgml: Add missing GB2312 and eucKR character sets.

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@ -388,7 +388,12 @@ character, it skips over the ASCII SO and handles the following bytes as
a UTF-8 character. Thus, the filename is symmetrically converted back to
UTF-16 and you can access the file.</para>
<para>Again, by using UTF-8 you can avoid this problem entirely.</para>
<note><para>Please be aware that this method is not entirely foolproof.
In some character set combinations it might not work for certain native
characters.</para>
<para>Only by using the UTF-8 charset you can avoid this problem safely.
</para></note>
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