[eclipse-dev] Valid characters in Eclipse paths

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The org.eclipse.core.runtime.IPath data
structure in Eclipse currently imposes restrictions on what characters
and segments it allows. This prevents files with certain names from being
added to an Eclipse workspace (most notably files and directories that
contains the colon ':' and back slash '\' characters.  The following
document proposes a solution to this problem in Eclipse 3.1.  Plugins
that create or use paths are encouraged to read this proposal and provide
comments to the platform-core-dev mailing list.  To reduce noise,
please do not reply to the eclipse-dev mailing list.

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-core-home/documents/path_changes.html
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