Adjust the __detail::__effective_range overloads so they always return a string or string view using std::char_traits, because we don't care about the traits of an incoming string. Use std::contiguous_iterator in the __effective_range(const Source&) overload, to allow returning a basic_string_view in more cases. For the non-contiguous cases in both __effective_range and __string_from_range, return a std::string instead of std::u8string when the value type of the range is char8_t. These changes avoid unnecessary basic_string temporaries. Also simplify __string_from_range(Iter, Iter) to not need std::__to_address for the contiguous case. Combine the _S_convert(string_type) and _S_convert(const T&) overloads into a single _S_convert(T) function which also avoids the dangling view problem of PR 102592 (should that recur somehow). libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog: * include/bits/fs_path.h (__detail::__is_contiguous): New variable template to identify contiguous iterators. (__detail::__unified_char8_t): New alias template to decide when to treat char8_t as char without encoding conversion. (__detail::__effective_range(const basic_string&)): Use std::char_traits for returned string view. (__detail::__effective_range(const basic_string_view&)): Likewise. (__detail::__effective_range(const Source&)): Use __is_contiguous to detect mode cases of contiguous iterators. Use __unified_char8_t to return a std::string instead of std::u8string. Tested powerpc64le-linux. Committed to trunk.