Possible bug in std.path?

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/19/16 11:25 AM, Kagamin wrote:
> On Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 14:53:21 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Then complain to Microsoft :) This is Microsoft's command shell
>> sending that parameter to your program.
>
> This is how CommandLineToArgvW behaves, which is called by druntime to
> parse the command line. For example, xcopy parses the command line
> correctly, e.g. this works as expected:
> xcopy file "..\"

Thanks for correcting, this is a difference from posix that I forgot about.

The reason for this (as spelled out in the comments) is to get around 
the poor handling of utf8 by Windows.

I think if you write a C program in Windows, your argv/argc will contain .."

You'd have to do the same acrobatics D does to get the original, so I 
don't think this is a problem that we need to solve. Use those low-level 
functions if you wish.

-Steve