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Re:Maintain It with Zig by roca on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @10:54PM (#28465695)
The difficulty of printing OsStr is nothing to do with Rust, it's really just the difficulty of printing Linux file names in any context given you don't know what the non-UTF8 bytes mean.
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Re:Maintain It with Zig by int_19h on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:19PM (#28477443)
It's also a good rationale for why filenames should be valid Unicode - because they're data displayed to the end user.
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