You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
File PathsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.290,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear Which feature uses this path check is not known.
What
A check on path entries already rejected control characters. It now also rejects the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD, usually shown as �), which appears when text was decoded with the wrong encoding.
Why
Path names garbled by a wrong encoding are now refused instead of being accepted.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhich feature uses this path check is not known.
