Under "technical details" it goes into the why. What I understood is: ocaml tries to support pre-NT era strings, since that's what the console uses, but NT-era

Under "technical details" it goes into the why. What I understood is: ocaml tries to support pre-NT era strings, since that's what the console uses, but NT-era files use a different encoding, and ocaml internally uses UTF8 for everything. Since pre NT didn't handle file paths with unicode, they didn't either. I'm not well versed in windows as to say if this was a clever way to solve the problem of console output, or if it was a really old hack that just now received some care and attention.