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Improve wording on special characters 

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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Kenneth Nellis 2017-02-14 09:46:56 +01:00 committed by Corinna Vinschen
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@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ in the Win32 API:</para>
<para>Cygwin can't fix this, but it has a method to workaround this
restriction. All of the above characters, except for the backslash,
are converted to special UNICODE characters in the range 0xf000 to 0xf0ff
(the "Private use area") when creating or accessing files.</para>
(the "Private use area") when creating or accessing files by adding 0xf000
to the forbidden characters' code points.</para>
<para>The backslash has to be exempt from this conversion, because Cygwin
accepts Win32 filenames including backslashes as path separators on input.