Topic: paths

• Line endings, encodings and paths: what breaks when a file moves between operating systems

  CRLF versus LF, the inconsistent encoding defaults of Windows PowerShell 5.1 versus BOM-less UTF-8 in PowerShell 7, EBCDIC on IBM mainframe-family systems, and filesystems that disagree about case sensitivity and maximum path length: a checklist of what to verify before assuming a text file or a path behaves the same way on a different OS.

  article · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

Machine-readable: JSON