Note that IO functions use UTF-8 paths

Sainan · well-in-that-case · commit 91fc392e7933 · 2025-05-31T16:31:12.000-04:00
diff --git a/docs/Runtime Environment/IO.md b/docs/Runtime Environment/IO.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 This page documents the changes & additions to the `io` library in Pluto, which is built on top of Lua 5.4's.
 
+To improve cross-platform consistency, all IO functions assume UTF-8 encoding for paths.
+
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 ### `io.rename`
 A variant of Lua's `os.rename` that raises an error on failure and instead has no return values.
diff --git a/docs/Runtime Environment/OS.md b/docs/Runtime Environment/OS.md
@@ -21,3 +21,9 @@ os.sleep(1000) -- Pause this thread for 1000ms.
 All of these return their respective times since implementation-specific epoch.
 ### `os.unixseconds`
 Returns seconds since UNIX epoch.
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+
+---
+### `os.rename`, `os.remove`
+Although we'd rather these functions be in the IO library, these Lua variants are retained, but modified to assume UTF-8 path encoding for the same cross-platform consistency the IO library has.
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