diff --git a/crates/docpath/src/lib.rs b/crates/docpath/src/lib.rs
index 1c5c41a7..d9abc941 100644
--- a/crates/docpath/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/docpath/src/lib.rs
@@ -75,8 +75,9 @@
 //! assert_eq!(resolve_absolute("img/logo.png", None), Err(Refused::Invalid));
 //! ```
 
+use std::ffi::OsStr;
 use std::fmt;
-use std::path::{MAIN_SEPARATOR, Path, PathBuf};
+use std::path::{Component, MAIN_SEPARATOR, Path, PathBuf, Prefix};
 
 /// What a stored path refers to.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
@@ -605,8 +606,11 @@ fn render(root: &Root, comps: &[String]) -> PathBuf {
     PathBuf::from(prefix + &comps.join(&sep.to_string()))
 }
 
-/// A relative link next to a document whose path is not UTF-8 (possible on Unix only).
+/// A relative link next to a document whose path is not Unicode (bytes that are not UTF-8 on
+/// Unix, an unpaired surrogate on Windows). The link inherits the document's root, so that root
+/// is held to the rules [`resolve`] applies to a Unicode document path.
 fn join_native(doc: &Path, comps: &[String]) -> Result<PathBuf, Refused> {
+    check_native_root(doc)?;
     let mut p = doc.parent().map(Path::to_path_buf).unwrap_or_default();
     for c in comps {
         match c.as_str() {
@@ -621,3 +625,19 @@ fn join_native(doc: &Path, comps: &[String]) -> Result<PathBuf, Refused> {
     }
     Ok(p)
 }
+
+/// Refuses a native document path rooted in a device or object-manager namespace (`\\.\`,
+/// `\\?\` other than a drive or `UNC`, `\??\`), as [`parse`] does for a Unicode one. Drives and
+/// shares are kept; a share is then the link's boundary as for a Unicode path.
+fn check_native_root(doc: &Path) -> Result<(), Refused> {
+    let mut comps = doc.components();
+    match comps.next() {
+        Some(Component::Prefix(p)) => match p.kind() {
+            Prefix::Disk(_) | Prefix::VerbatimDisk(_) => Ok(()),
+            Prefix::UNC(host, _) | Prefix::VerbatimUNC(host, _) if host != "." && host != "?" => Ok(()),
+            _ => Err(Refused::Device),
+        },
+        Some(Component::RootDir) if comps.next() == Some(Component::Normal(OsStr::new("??"))) => Err(Refused::Device),
+        _ => Ok(()),
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/docpath/tests/docpath.rs b/crates/docpath/tests/docpath.rs
index 40f2098b..5876a0e2 100644
--- a/crates/docpath/tests/docpath.rs
+++ b/crates/docpath/tests/docpath.rs
@@ -401,3 +401,34 @@ fn refusals_have_messages() {
         assert!(!r.to_string().is_empty());
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(unix)]
+#[test]
+fn a_non_unicode_document_path_keeps_the_namespace_rules() {
+    use std::ffi::OsStr;
+    use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
+    let doc = Path::new(OsStr::from_bytes(b"/home/u/\xff/a.doc"));
+    assert_eq!(resolve("img/x.png", Some(doc)).unwrap(), Path::new(OsStr::from_bytes(b"/home/u/\xff/img/x.png")));
+    let device = Path::new(OsStr::from_bytes(b"/??/\xff/a.doc"));
+    assert_eq!(resolve("x.png", Some(device)), Err(Refused::Device));
+    assert_eq!(resolve("x.png", Some(Path::new("/??/u/a.doc"))), Err(Refused::Device));
+}
+
+#[cfg(windows)]
+#[test]
+fn a_non_unicode_document_path_keeps_the_namespace_rules() {
+    use std::ffi::OsString;
+    use std::os::windows::ffi::OsStringExt;
+    let native = |s: &str| {
+        // An unpaired surrogate in the folder name makes the path non-Unicode.
+        let mut w: Vec<u16> = s.encode_utf16().collect();
+        let at = w.iter().rposition(|c| *c == u16::from(b'\\')).unwrap_or(0);
+        w.insert(at, 0xD800);
+        std::path::PathBuf::from(OsString::from_wide(&w))
+    };
+    assert!(resolve("x.png", Some(native(r"C:\docs\a.doc").as_path())).is_ok());
+    assert!(resolve("x.png", Some(native(r"\\server\share\docs\a.doc").as_path())).is_ok());
+    for doc in [r"\\.\COM1\docs\a.doc", r"\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\docs\a.doc", r"\??\C:\docs\a.doc"] {
+        assert_eq!(resolve("x.png", Some(native(doc).as_path())), Err(Refused::Device), "{doc}");
+    }
+}