I need to store the original pathname in persistent storage. In cross-platform cases I usually just do the "Your path must be convertible to utf-8" thing, but what I'm working on now requires lossless storage of the original path-and-filename. Moving names between platforms is not a thing here -- I just need Windows names on Windows and unixy names on unixy platforms.

Does anyone know if a crate that can do this? The format of the serialized name does not matter (hex, base64, base85, ..), as long as it can be stuck in a quoted string in some common storage format (RON, Kdl, json).

(Just to (re)emphasize: It's important that the deserialized name exactly matches the original name).

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