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templater: swap `\` with `/` to allow the resource logic to kicks in

Without this change our wrapper to the resource logic will fails to details the
nesting and try to pass `directory/file` entry to the resource module, leading
to a crash.

Ideally, we should track down all caller passing `\` instead of `/`, but that
is far more intrusive and we would like to have a working pyoxidized version
working for 5.9 It will be easy to add a warning to the above code to track
down "bad" caller during the 6.0 cycle.

This reduce the number of failing test with pyoxidizer from 52 to 23

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11281

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.