[1.6.x] Note about static files dirs paths on Windows.

Added it to the settings reference. We used to have it in comment form
in our old, bigger default project template settings.py file.

5866a49369 from master.

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diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index 32a115299a..5503d8752d 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -2579,6 +2579,9 @@ your additional files directory(ies) e.g.::
         "/opt/webfiles/common",
     )
 
+Note that these paths should use Unix-style forward slashes, even on Windows
+(e.g. ``"C:/Users/user/mysite/extra_static_content"``).
+
 Prefixes (optional)
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