os-string

Library for manipulating Operating system strings.

https://github.com/haskell/os-string/blob/master/README.md

LTS Haskell 24.5:2.0.4
Stackage Nightly 2025-08-18:2.0.7
Latest on Hackage:2.0.8

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BSD-3-Clause licensed and maintained by Julian Ospald
This version can be pinned in stack with:os-string-2.0.8@sha256:d8b0f9cc3c7efb14c9924699322c8f151f30a65e8845bdf53bd344af47452344,3298

Module documentation for 2.0.8

Used by 1 package in lts-23.28(full list with versions):
hashable

OsString Hackage version

This package provides functionality for manipulating @OsString@ values, and is shipped with <https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC>.

Changes

Changelog for os-string package

2.0.8 Aug 2025

  • Add safe conversions from ShortByteString #34

2.0.7 Nov 2024

  • don’t catch asynchronous exceptions during encoding/decoding wrt #22

2.0.6 Jun 2024

  • add fromString on windows
  • add fromBytestring on unix

2.0.5 Jun 2024

  • Add decodeLE/encodeLE and deprecate decodeFS/encodeFS (pointing users to System.OsPath instead), fixes #19

2.0.4 Jun 2024

  • Use TemplateHaskellQuotes rather than TemplateHaskell extension wrt #21

2.0.3 May 2024

  • Fix length function wrt #17

2.0.2.2 May 2024

  • Fix compilation on big-endian arches, by Andrew Lelechenko

2.0.2.1 Apr 2024

  • Fix compabitiliby with GHC 9.10

2.0.2 Dec 2023

  • Implement coercionToPlatformTypes, fixes #4

2.0.1 Dec 2023

  • add unsafeEncodeUtf, fixes #5

2.0.0 Nov 2023

  • Split out OsString modules from filepath library
  • add more bytestring like functions (index/search/etc.)

1.0.0 Nov 2023

  • dummy release to avoid name clashes with filepath <1.5