that sounds odd... of course a thing to keep in mind.
But so far I think for directory separator purposes using DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR is safer.
not sure if you can generalize that. as i wrote in my post, people are using the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR and it happened to me more than once, that the well-intentioned DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR simply broke stuff.
of course you arguments are really good ones, i simply try to balance what happens more often, a special encoding which is known to break things or a DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR which is used wrong because it can't be tested on linux systems.
that sounds odd... of course a thing to keep in mind.
not sure if you can generalize that. as i wrote in my post, people are using the
DIRECTORY_SEPARATORand it happened to me more than once, that the well-intentionedDIRECTORY_SEPARATORsimply broke stuff.of course you arguments are really good ones, i simply try to balance what happens more often, a special encoding which is known to break things or a
DIRECTORY_SEPARATORwhich is used wrong because it can't be tested on linux systems.But you shouldn't use DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR on urls, hence your "simply broke stuff" issue.
It's like using
move_uploaded_fileto move file A.txt to B.txt, it simply won't work.