Re:Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
by Dwedit on Sunday November 30, 2025 @12:55PM
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Very cursed, and the drive letter won't even be accessible under certain codepages.
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Re:Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
by jeroenhd on Sunday November 30, 2025 @02:10PM
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As far as I can tell, the drive will still be accessible, it'll just require the character equivalent to € on the other code page as a drive letter.
As long as your code page doesn't have gaps, that should be doable. It'll definitely confuse the hell out of anyone who doesn't know about this setup, though!
Re:Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z
by Dwedit on Sunday November 30, 2025 @06:45PM
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I don't think it works that way, the actual drive letter is a UTF-16 Unicode path. The application must be able to provide an "ANSI" string that encodes to that UTF-16 value if it uses an "ANSI" function to open the file. It's not like 8-bit systems where they just want the same 8-bit value.