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creeble
on May 4, 2018
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The hell that is filename encoding (2016)
They're not strings nor texts right up until the point you need to display them to users.
tom_
on May 4, 2018
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Same applies to many things, but that doesn’t make those things strings. Numbers might be another example.
creeble
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My point is that you _always_ have to convert path names to strings to display them to users, but you don't always know how because you don't always know the (sometimes implied) encoding.
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