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Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z (www.ryanliptak.com)
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[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This behavior is actually in line with what I'd expect, as Unicode support in Windows predates UTF-16, so Windows generally does not handle surrogate pairs and instead operates almost exclusively on WTF-16 code units directly.

So it's just straight UCS-2, and the software does enforce that, pretty much the opposite of "WTF-16".

Edit: Pretty sure "modern" (XP+ I think) Windows actually does enforce UTF-16 validity in the system, but there's always legacy stuff from the NT4/2K era that might turn up.