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BoringTimesGang on Oct 8, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: A popular but wrong way to convert a string to upp...

Now double all of that effort, so you can get it to work with Windows' UTF-16 wstrings.

account42 on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

Better to just convert WTF-16 (Windows filenames re not guaranteed to be valid UTF-16) to/from WTF-8 at the API boundary and then do the same processing internally on all platforms.

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