I want a cross-platform way to convert a relative Path into an unspecified superset of ASCII, where the output will be UTF-8 if the input is well-formed UTF-8 or UTF-16, and / is the directory separator
on unix, this just means passing through the bytes unchanged
on windows, this involves some utf-16/utf-8 transcoding
You can't tell for sure if a byte stream is UTF8 or UTF16. So you'll need to know the source platform.
If you're okay restricting windows paths to valid UTF-16, maybe bstr fulfills your needs?
no, but i can know based on if i got it from the linux or windows kernel.
windows OsStr is WTF-8, not UTF-16, so it's a moot point anyways, i just want the internal representation with slashes normalized.
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