John Millikin wrote: > Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but the definition of 'withFilePath' you > provided is definitely locale-dependent. Unless getFileSystemEncoding > is constant?
I think/hope it's locale dependent, but undecodable bytes are remapped, so as long as the system's locale doesn't change, reading a FilePath with the encoding and then writing it back out should always reproduce the same bytes. > > Filesystem.Path.CurrentOS.toText is a nice option if you want validly > > encoded output though. Thanks for that! > > Ah, that's not what toText is for. toText provides a human-readable > representation of the path. It's used for things like file managers, > where you need to show the user a label which approximates the > underlying path. There's no guarantee that the output of toText can be > converted back to the original path, especially if it returns a Left. Yes, that's what I meant. :) -- see shy jo
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