[steveklabnik]

> except some API are stupidly implemented for &string instead.

Which ones are those? I can't think of any off the top of my head, though brains are fallible!

[ComputerGuru]

Hi Steve! Sorry, I didn't mean to imply in the core API. I don't think (though I too could be wrong) that &string is used anywhere that AsRef<OsStr> isn't also available.