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by manwe150 36 days ago
> Ill-formed UTF-16 is replaced with U+FFFD by default, or escaped under {:?}.

Silently corrupting the path seems an odd choice in this day and age, when WTF8 has existed for many years and fixes this round trip bug / security vulnerability
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silon42 36 days ago
Yes, but WTF-8 is not UTF-8.
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manwe150 27 days ago
Yeah, but picking utf8 over wtf8 for this in 2026 feels a lot like picking utf16 over utf8 in 1995. You know the choice is broken and you know there is a correct fix already out there.
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