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by hsivonen
2353 days ago
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The Rust standard library has a solution for this that actually works: On Unix-like systems file paths are sequences of bytes and most of the time the bytes are UTF-8. On Windows, they are WTF-8, so the API users sees a sequence of bytes and most of the time they match UTF-8. This means that there's more overhead on Windows, but it's much better to normalize what the application programmer sees across POSIX and NT while still roundtripping all paths for both than to make the code unit size difference the application programmer's problem like the C++ file system API does. |
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Seems like an apt acronym for Windows... :-)
On a more serious note, Python seems to have done something fairly similar with the pathlib standard library module.