std::filesystem::u8path

Constructs a path p from a UTF-8 encoded sequence of charsor char8_ts(since C++20), supplied either as an std::string, or as std::string_view, or as a null-terminated multibyte string, or as a [first, last)

• If path::value_type is char and native encoding is UTF-8, constructs a path directly as if by path(source) or path(first, last)
• Otherwise, if path::value_type is wchar_t and native encoding is UTF-16 (this is the situation on Windows), or if path::value_type is char16_t (native encoding guaranteed UTF-16) or char32_t (native encoding guaranteed UTF-32), then first converts the UTF-8 character sequence to a temporary string tmp of type path::string_type and then the new path is constructed as if by path(tmp)
• Otherwise (for non-UTF-8 narrow character encodings and for non-UTF-16 wchar_t), first converts the UTF-8 character sequence to a temporary UTF-32-encoded string tmp of type std::u32string, and then the new path is constructed as if by path(tmp)

Parameters

Return value

The path constructed from the input string after conversion from UTF-8 to the filesystem's native character encoding.

Exceptions

May throw std::bad_alloc if memory allocation fails.

Notes

On systems where native path format differs from the generic path format (neither Windows nor POSIX systems are examples of such OSes), if the argument to this function is using generic format, it will be converted to native.

Example

#include <cstdio>
#ifdef _MSC_VER
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <io.h>
#else
#include <clocale>
#include <locale>
#endif
#include <filesystem>
#include <fstream>
 
int main()
{
#ifdef _MSC_VER
    _setmode(_fileno(stderr), _O_WTEXT);
#else
    std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
    std::locale::global(std::locale(""));
#endif
 
    std::filesystem::path p(u8"要らない.txt");
    std::ofstream(p) << "File contents"; // Prior to LWG2676 uses operator string_type()
                                         // on MSVC, where string_type is wstring, only
                                         // works due to non-standard extension.
                                         // Post-LWG2676 uses new fstream constructors
 
    // Native string representation can be used with OS-specific APIs
#ifdef _MSC_VER
    if (std::FILE* f = _wfopen(p.c_str(), L"r"))
#else
    if (std::FILE* f = std::fopen(p.c_str(), "r"))
#endif
    {
        for (int ch; (ch = fgetc(f)) != EOF; std::putchar(ch))
        {}
        std::fclose(f);
    }
 
    std::filesystem::remove(p);
}

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