FilePath: add a convertor to ASCII

base/file_path.h

Index: base/file_path.h
diff --git a/base/file_path.h b/base/file_path.h
index 84bb35005f605bf8feab076c3ceb2f09abcd6d51..1afa7a6a8fe18b080f6da28ba7d223b14aed08a3 100644
--- a/base/file_path.h
+++ b/base/file_path.h
@@ -283,6 +283,11 @@ class FilePath {
   // want to stuff a string16 into some other API.
   string16 LossyDisplayName() const;
 
+  // Return the path as ASCII, or the empty string if the path is not ASCII.
+  // This should only be used for cases where the FilePath is representing a
+  // known-ASCII filename.
+  std::string MaybeAsASCII() const;

[Avi (use Gerrit), 2011/03/01 19:56:36]

method name FTW

+
   // Older Chromium code assumes that paths are always wstrings.
   // These functions convert wstrings to/from FilePaths, and are
   // useful to smooth porting that old code to the FilePath API.