Index: .efiles
==================================================================
--- .efiles
+++ .efiles
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@
 src/tokiox.rs
 src/tokiox/tcpconn.rs
 src/serde_parsers.rs
 examples/fut_if_some.rs
 examples/deser.rs
+examples/slasher.rs

Index: Cargo.toml
==================================================================
--- Cargo.toml
+++ Cargo.toml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 [package]
 name = "orphanage"
-version = "0.1.1"
+version = "0.1.2"
 edition = "2021"
 license = "0BSD"
 # https://crates.io/category_slugs
 categories = [ "network-programming" ]
 keywords = [ "sqlite", "fs", "path" ]
@@ -32,14 +32,14 @@
 async-trait = { version = "0.1.82", optional = true }
 killswitch = { version = "0.4.2", optional = true }
 parse-size = { version = "1.1.0", optional = true }
 rand = { version = "0.8.5" }
 rusqlite = { version = "0.32.1", optional = true, features = ["functions"] }
-serde = { version = "1.0.210", optional = true, features = ["derive"] }
+serde = { version = "1.0.214", optional = true, features = ["derive"] }
 sha2 = { version = "0.10.7", optional = true }
 shellexpand = { version = "3.1.0" }
-tokio = { version = "1.40.0", optional = true, features = [
+tokio = { version = "1.41.0", optional = true, features = [
   "macros", "net", "time"
 ] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 killswitch = { version = "0.4.2" }

ADDED   examples/slasher.rs
Index: examples/slasher.rs
==================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ examples/slasher.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+use orphanage::path::win2unix_sep;
+
+fn main() {
+  let winpath = r"c:\foo\bar\baz.txt";
+  let pth = win2unix_sep(winpath);
+  println!("{pth:?}");
+}
+
+// vim: set ft=rust et sw=2 ts=2 sts=2 cinoptions=2 tw=79 :

Index: src/path.rs
==================================================================
--- src/path.rs
+++ src/path.rs
@@ -131,10 +131,33 @@
   }
 
   inner(basedir, pth.as_ref())
 }
 
+
+/// Replace '\` with `/` in a `PathBuf`.
+///
+/// On unixy platforms, `\` isn't treated a a path separator, while on Windows
+/// both `\` and `/` are treated as path separators, which means that using `/`
+/// on Windows is the most portable option.
+///
+/// The current implementation converts the path to a string, using
+/// `Path::to_str()`, replaces the backslashes with slashes and then converts
+/// the string back to a `PathBuf`.  An implication of this is that only paths
+/// that are utf-8 compliant can be processed.
+#[must_use]
+#[allow(clippy::option_if_let_else)]
+pub fn win2unix_sep(pth: impl AsRef<Path>) -> PathBuf {
+  let pth = pth.as_ref();
+  if let Some(s) = pth.to_str() {
+    let converted = s.replace('\\', "/");
+    PathBuf::from(converted)
+  } else {
+    pth.to_path_buf()
+  }
+}
+
 
 /*
 /// Expand, perform action on expanded path.
 pub fn expand_and<F>(input: impl AsRef<str>, f: F) -> Result<PathBuf, Error>
 where

Index: src/strx.rs
==================================================================
--- src/strx.rs
+++ src/strx.rs
@@ -53,10 +53,16 @@
 #[inline]
 #[must_use]
 pub fn is_name_char(c: char) -> bool {
   c.is_alphanumeric() || c == '_' || c == '-' || c == '.'
 }
+
+
+pub const OBJNAME_SPEC: &str = "must be non-empty, lead with an alphabetic \
+                                character, with each following character \
+                                being alphanumeric, '_', '-' or '.'";
+
 
 #[allow(clippy::missing_errors_doc)]
 pub fn validate_name<L, R>(s: &str, lead: L, rest: R) -> Result<(), Error>
 where
   L: Fn(char) -> bool,

Index: www/changelog.md
==================================================================
--- www/changelog.md
+++ www/changelog.md
@@ -1,10 +1,33 @@
 # Change Log
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-[Details](/vdiff?from=orphanage-0.1.0&to=trunk)
+[Details](/vdiff?from=orphanage-0.1.2&to=trunk)
+
+### Added
+
+### Changed
+
+### Removed
+
+---
+
+## [0.1.2] - 2024-11-01
+
+[Details](/vdiff?from=orphanage-0.1.1&to=orphanage-0.1.2)
+
+### Added
+
+- `path::win2unix_sep()` can be used to convert paths with backslashes to
+  paths with slashes.
+
+---
+
+## [0.1.1] - 2024-10-19
+
+[Details](/vdiff?from=orphanage-0.1.0&to=orphanage-0.1.1)
 
 ### Added
 
 - Add `path::PathExt`, and implement it for `PathBuf`.
   - `PathBuf::expand()` expands a string to a `PathBuf` and returns it.
@@ -11,14 +34,10 @@
   - `PathBuf::expand_and()` works like `PathBuf::expand()` but it runs a
      closure on the expanded pwth before returning it.
   - `PathBuf::expand_and_canon()` works like `PathBuf::expand_and()` but it
     canonicalizes the path just before returning it.
 
-### Changed
-
-### Removed
-
 ---
 
 ## [0.1.0]
 
 [Details](/vdiff?from=orphanage-0.0.4&to=orphanage-0.1.0)