Extended-Length Path In Windows Encoded Differently Than Windows Path

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An extended-length path in windows is prepended with "\\?\" (for example \\?\c:\windows). As such, uriparser doesn't seem to recognize it as a windows path. It is encoded but not in a typical Windows way.

My current work-around is to remove "\\?\" before passing in the path to uriWindowsFilenameToUriStringA.

[hartwork]

Hi!

I don't have Windows at hand to try this out easily. Could you point me to the authoritative documentation on these kinds of Network paths?

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Check out https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/naming-a-file specifically https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/FileIO/naming-a-file#maximum-path-length-limitation.

As an aside, the prefix can also be \\?\UNC\