Description
The C++17 standard demands for std::filesystem::path
: "For Windows-based operating systems, value_type is wchar_t and preferred_separator is the backslash character (L’\\’
)." (30.10.8-2)
While I still don't really like the decision, I will try to help those in need of a more std::filesystem conforming implementation for C++11/14 by implementing an option to build ghc::filesystem
with ghc::filesystem::path::value_type
as wchar_t
and ghc::filesystem::path::string_type
as std::basic_string<wchar_t>
on Windows.
It might be a good idea to actually activate that option from the helper header files that try to detect std::filesystem
and include ghc::filesystem
only when no standard version is available, as in these situations the resulting fs::path
should have the same interface.