GLib.filename_to_uri

function filename_to_uri(filename: String, hostname: String): String {
    // Gjs wrapper for g_filename_to_uri()
}

Converts an absolute filename to an escaped ASCII-encoded URI, with the path component following Section 3.3. of RFC 2396.

filename

an absolute filename specified in the GLib file name encoding, which is the on-disk file name bytes on Unix, and UTF-8 on Windows

hostname

A UTF-8 encoded hostname, or null for none.

Returns

a newly-allocated string holding the resulting URI, or null on an error.