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I miss falsehoods about pathnames:

* That there's never a \0 in a pathname

wchar names on MSWin UNICODE and WinCE. Symbian uses UTF16.

* That paths are seperated by /

Yes, Windows NT accepts /, VMS, VOS, RISC OS also, but MacOS classic had :, and VMS uses []. And there are still \ pathseps only, like DOS, OS/2, SYMBIAN, Novell NETWARE, AmigaOS4. Native Acorn RISC OS uses . as pathsep and : as in DOS.

Just the easiest ones.

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"* That paths are seperated by /" The day I learnded that Korean Windows version uses a Won sign and Japanes use a Yen sign was very bad day.

AmigaOS paths are separated with "/" between directory elements, not "\", but with a volume name separate from the path name with a ":", similar to Windows.

But what makes matters more complicated, is that on AmigaOS "/" is equivalent to "." on Unix systems, and "//" equivalent to "..", and "."/".." are legal filenames. AmigaOS doesn't have an equivalent to "/" in Unix (everything is rooted in a volume, and there are many volumes), but ":" can be used to prefix a path to make it relative to the root of the current volume...

It breaks all kinds of assumptions people make..

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