Decode special characters in Cygwin path

char.py

ss = "\uf03a"

print(f"Unicode char used by cygwin to represent : in path {ss} {[ss]}")

value = ord(ss)

print(f"Convert it to hex number {(hex(value))}")

# https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html
value -= 0xf000

new_unicode_char = chr(value)

print(f"Subtract 0xf000 -- {new_unicode_char}")