diff --git a/docs/changelog.txt b/docs/changelog.txt
index f91284001..219cf8d18 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.txt
+++ b/docs/changelog.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ changelog.txt uses a syntax similar to RST, with a few special sequences:
 - ``gui.Painter``: fixed error when calling ``viewport()`` method
 - ``gui.dwarfmode``: new function: ``enterSidebarMode(sidebar_mode, max_esc)`` which uses keypresses to get into the specified sidebar mode from whatever the current screen is
 - `reveal`: now exposes ``unhideFlood(pos)`` functionality to Lua
+- new utility function: ``utils.normalizePath()``: normalizes directory slashes across platoforms to ``/`` and coaleses adjacent directory separators
 - ``utils.processArgsGetopt()``: now returns negative numbers (e.g. ``-10``) in the list of positional parameters instead of treating it as an option string equivalent to ``-1 -0``
 - ``utils.processArgsGetopt()``: now properly handles ``--`` like GNU ``getopt`` as a marker to treat all further parameters as non-options
 - ``utils.processArgsGetopt()``: now detects when required arguments to long-form options are missing
diff --git a/library/lua/utils.lua b/library/lua/utils.lua
index b0bc70af4..39a6c156e 100644
--- a/library/lua/utils.lua
+++ b/library/lua/utils.lua
@@ -544,6 +544,13 @@ function check_number(text)
     return nv ~= nil, nv
 end
 
+-- Normalize directory separator slashes across platforms to '/' and collapse
+-- adjacent slashes into a single slash.
+local platformSlash = package.config:sub(1,1)
+function normalizePath(path)
+    return path:gsub(platformSlash, '/'):gsub('/+', '/')
+end
+
 function invert(tab)
     local result = {}
     for k,v in pairs(tab) do
diff --git a/scripts b/scripts
index 98801f3dc..af53a985c 160000
--- a/scripts
+++ b/scripts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 98801f3dc979cf6a3277dde0b6617bfe5ac5e017
+Subproject commit af53a985c54b29a5b3092127a5e8ec3495ef0cee
diff --git a/test/library/utils.lua b/test/library/utils.lua
index b2c63dafd..6232bd9a2 100644
--- a/test/library/utils.lua
+++ b/test/library/utils.lua
@@ -14,6 +14,20 @@ function test.OrderedTable()
     end
 end
 
+function test.normalizePath()
+    expect.eq('imapath/file.csv', utils.normalizePath('imapath/file.csv'))
+    expect.eq('/ima/path', utils.normalizePath('/ima/path'))
+    expect.eq('ima/path', utils.normalizePath('ima//path'))
+
+    expect.eq('imapath', utils.normalizePath('imapath'))
+    expect.eq('/imapath', utils.normalizePath('/imapath'))
+    expect.eq('/imapath', utils.normalizePath('//imapath'))
+    expect.eq('/imapath', utils.normalizePath('///imapath'))
+
+    expect.eq('imapath/', utils.normalizePath('imapath/'))
+    expect.eq('imapath/', utils.normalizePath('imapath//'))
+end
+
 function test.invert()
     local t = {}
     local i = utils.invert{'a', 4.4, false, true, 5, t}