adjust wording

Author: wiomoc

Lib/tarfile.py

@@ -2721,8 +2721,8 @@ def makelink_with_filter(self, tarinfo, targetpath,
                 link_target = tarinfo.linkname
                 if os.name == "nt":
                     # gh-57911: Posix-flavoured forward-slash path separators in
-                    # symlink targets aren't sanitized by Windows automaticly,
-                    # resulting in corrupted links.
+                    # symlink targets aren't acknowledged by Windows, resulting
+                    # in corrupted links.
                     link_target = link_target.replace("/", os.path.sep)
                 os.symlink(link_target, targetpath)
                 return

Lib/test/test_tarfile.py

@@ -4041,7 +4041,7 @@ def test_absolute_symlink(self):
 
     @symlink_test
     @os_helper.skip_unless_symlink
-    def test_symlink_target_sanitized_on_windows(self):
+    def test_symlink_target_seperator_rewrite_on_windows(self):
         with ArchiveMaker() as arc:
             arc.add('link', symlink_to="relative/test/path")
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2025-08-31-22-10-22.gh-issue-57911.N_Ixtv.rst

@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-When extracting tar files on Windows the path of symlink targets will be
-sanitized to use backward-slashes as path separator because Posix flavoured
-path separators result in corrupted links.
+When extracting tar files on Windows Posix flavoured path separators in symlink
+targets will be replaced by backward-slashes to prevent corrupted links.