diff --git a/src/base/property_value_conversion.cpp b/src/base/property_value_conversion.cpp
index dc3bf291..4e95b8d6 100644
--- a/src/base/property_value_conversion.cpp
+++ b/src/base/property_value_conversion.cpp
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #include "property_value_conversion.h"
 
 #include "cpp_utils.h"
+#include "filepath_conv.h"
 #include "math_utils.h"
 #include "property_builtins.h"
 #include "property_enumeration.h"
@@ -205,8 +206,11 @@ bool PropertyValueConversion::fromVariant(Property* prop, const Variant& variant
         return fnError("Variant not convertible to string");
     }
     else if (isType<PropertyFilePath>(prop)) {
+        // Note: explicit conversion from utf8 std::string to std::filesystem::path
+        //       If character type of the source string is "char" then FilePath constructor assumes
+        //       native narrow encoding(which might cause encoding issues)
         if (variant.isConvertibleToConstRefString())
-            return ptr<PropertyFilePath>(prop)->setValue(variant.toConstRefString());
+            return ptr<PropertyFilePath>(prop)->setValue(filepathFrom(variant.toConstRefString()));
         else
             return fnError("Variant expected to hold string");
     }
diff --git a/tests/test_base.cpp b/tests/test_base.cpp
index 6bbd5374..b02268f5 100644
--- a/tests/test_base.cpp
+++ b/tests/test_base.cpp
@@ -78,6 +78,35 @@ Q_DECLARE_METATYPE(Mayo::PropertyValueConversion::Variant)
 
 namespace Mayo {
 
+static std::optional<std::locale> findFrLocale()
+{
+    auto fnGetLocale = [](const char* name) -> std::optional<std::locale> {
+        try {
+            return std::locale(name);
+        } catch (...) {
+            qWarning().noquote() << QString("Locale '%1' not available").arg(name);
+        }
+
+        return {};
+    };
+
+    // Tests with "fr_FR" locale which is likely to be Windows-1252 or ISO8859-1 on Unix
+    std::vector<const char*> frLocaleNames = { "fr_FR.ISO8859-15", "fr_FR.ISO-8859-15" };
+#ifndef MAYO_OS_WINDOWS
+    // No native utf8 support on Windows(or requires Windows 10 november 2019 update)
+    frLocaleNames.push_back("fr_FR.utf8");
+#endif
+    frLocaleNames.push_back("fr_FR");
+
+    std::optional<std::locale> frLocale;
+    for (const char* localeName : frLocaleNames) {
+        if (!frLocale)
+            frLocale = fnGetLocale(localeName);
+    }
+
+    return frLocale;
+}
+
 // For the sake of QCOMPARE()
 static bool operator==(const UnitSystem::TranslateResult& lhs, const UnitSystem::TranslateResult& rhs)
 {
@@ -311,6 +340,9 @@ void TestBase::PropertyValueConversion_test()
         enum class MayoTest_Color { Bleu, Blanc, Rouge };
         prop.reset(new PropertyEnum<MayoTest_Color>(nullptr, {}));
     }
+    else if (strPropertyName == PropertyFilePath::TypeName) {
+        prop.reset(new PropertyFilePath(nullptr, {}));
+    }
 
     QVERIFY(prop);
 
@@ -337,6 +369,18 @@ void TestBase::PropertyValueConversion_test_data()
     QTest::newRow("Enumeration(Color)") << PropertyEnumeration::TypeName << Variant("Blanc");
 }
 
+void TestBase::PropertyValueConversion_bugGitHub219_test()
+{
+    const std::string strPath = "c:\\é_à_À_œ_ç";
+    PropertyValueConversion conv;
+    PropertyFilePath propFilePath(nullptr, {});
+    const bool ok = conv.fromVariant(&propFilePath, strPath);
+    QVERIFY(ok);
+    //qDebug() << "strPath:" << QByteArray::fromStdString(strPath);
+    //qDebug() << "propFilePath:" << QByteArray::fromStdString(propFilePath.value().u8string());
+    QCOMPARE(propFilePath.value().u8string(), strPath);
+}
+
 void TestBase::PropertyQuantityValueConversion_test()
 {
     QFETCH(QString, strPropertyName);
@@ -554,30 +598,7 @@ void TestBase::IO_bugGitHub166_test_data()
 
 void TestBase::DoubleToString_test()
 {
-    auto fnGetLocale = [](const char* name) -> std::optional<std::locale> {
-        try {
-            return std::locale(name);
-        } catch (...) {
-            qWarning().noquote() << QString("Locale '%1' not available").arg(name);
-        }
-
-        return {};
-    };
-
-    // Tests with "fr_FR" locale which is likely to be Windows-1252 or ISO8859-1 on Unix
-    std::vector<const char*> frLocaleNames = { "fr_FR.ISO8859-15", "fr_FR.ISO-8859-15" };
-#ifndef MAYO_OS_WINDOWS
-    // No native utf8 support on Windows(or requires Windows 10 november 2019 update)
-    frLocaleNames.push_back("fr_FR.utf8");
-#endif
-    frLocaleNames.push_back("fr_FR");
-
-    std::optional<std::locale> frLocale;
-    for (const char* localeName : frLocaleNames) {
-        if (!frLocale)
-            frLocale = fnGetLocale(localeName);
-    }
-
+    std::optional<std::locale> frLocale = findFrLocale();
     if (frLocale) {
         qInfo() << "frLocale:" << QString::fromStdString(frLocale->name());
         // 1258.
diff --git a/tests/test_base.h b/tests/test_base.h
index 0fbffa7f..def9ed24 100644
--- a/tests/test_base.h
+++ b/tests/test_base.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ private slots:
 
     void PropertyValueConversion_test();
     void PropertyValueConversion_test_data();
+    void PropertyValueConversion_bugGitHub219_test();
 
     void PropertyQuantityValueConversion_test();
     void PropertyQuantityValueConversion_test_data();