John Millikin
OSX's chief weirdness is that its GUI programs swap ':' and '/' when displaying filenames.
A remnant from the bad old days of MacOS <10, where : was the path separator, and / was a perfectly good character to use in filenames.
-- | Try to decode a FilePath to Text, using the current locale encoding. If -- the filepath is invalid in the current locale, it is decoded as ASCII and -- any non-ASCII bytes are replaced with a placeholder.
Why not map them to individual placeholders, i.e. in a private Unicode area? This way, the conversion could be invertible, and possibly even sensibly displayable given a guesstimated alternative locale (e.g. as Latin 1 if the locale is a West European one). -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants