Guten Tag Dominik Psenner,
am Freitag, 22. Februar 2019 um 22:35 schrieben Sie:

> I wonder when the (not so) "special" characters ":?" will
> become acceptable in file and directory names..

Most likely never, because both are already in use: ":" for Alternate
Data Streams which are pretty much the same like Extended Attributes
on other file systems.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2003/cc781134%28v%3dws.10%29#multiple-data-streams
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/file-streams#naming-conventions-for-streams

And as the example for long Unicode paths already showed, "?" is
heavily used in internal namespaces for various objects:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/fileio/naming-a-file#nt-namespaces

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Thorsten Schöning

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