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Return a UTF‐8 representation of the path as a std::string, for compatibility with code using std::string. For code using the newer std::u8string type, it is more efficient to call the inherited std::filesystem::path::u8string method instead.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<util/fs.h>`

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std::string
utf8string() const;
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== Return Value

The path encoded as a UTF‐8 std::string.


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