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docs: explain why path.posix.normalize does not replace windows slashes #12700

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Expand Up @@ -330,6 +330,15 @@ For example on POSIX:
path.normalize('/foo/bar//baz/asdf/quux/..');
// Returns: '/foo/bar/baz/asdf'
```
*Note*: The `path.posix.normalize()` method will not attempt to convert \
(Windows) to / (POSIX), as \ is not recognized by POSIX as a valid directory
separator.
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Suggestion: wrap the \ and / in backticks...

`\` and `/`


For example:
```js
path.posix.normalize("\\some\\thing\\like\\this")
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Suggestion: include .. in the sample path to show that those segments are not removed from the normalized path.

//Returns '\some\thing\like\this'
```

On Windows:

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