This crate allows interacting with the data stored internally by OsStr and OsString, without resorting to panics or corruption for invalid UTF-8. Thus, methods can be used that are already defined on [u8] and Vec<u8>.

Typically, the only way to losslessly construct OsStr or OsString from a byte sequence is to use OsStr::new(str::from_utf8(bytes)?), which requires the bytes to be valid in UTF-8. However, since this crate makes conversions directly between the platform encoding and raw bytes, even some strings invalid in UTF-8 can be converted.

Add the following lines to your "Cargo.toml" file:

[dependencies]
os_str_bytes = "2.1"

See the documentation for available functionality and examples.

The minimum supported Rust toolchain version depends on the platform:

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