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MSYS2 inherits the trick from Cygwin to pretend that filenames can contain characters that are illegal on Windows (by mapping them to a private Unicode page). As long as we stay safely within the MSYS2 realm (Bash, GNU make, Perl) that is fine, so technically this change is not needed. But it is a lot more elegant not to rely on this. Besides, the suffix `.new` is a lot more intuitive than the suffix `+`... Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>