diff --git a/src/libstd/path.rs b/src/libstd/path.rs
index c90a0c7852737..c657e5638d0c8 100644
--- a/src/libstd/path.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/path.rs
@@ -3953,4 +3953,10 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(path, path_buf);
         assert!(path_buf.into_os_string().capacity() >= 15);
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn display_format_flags() {
+        assert_eq!(format!("a{:#<5}b", Path::new("").display()), "a#####b");
+        assert_eq!(format!("a{:#<5}b", Path::new("a").display()), "aa####b");
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys_common/wtf8.rs b/src/libstd/sys_common/wtf8.rs
index 4e4a6e77d1242..b89a73cd28a09 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys_common/wtf8.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys_common/wtf8.rs
@@ -452,10 +452,14 @@ impl fmt::Display for Wtf8 {
                     pos = surrogate_pos + 3;
                 },
                 None => {
-                    formatter.write_str(unsafe {
+                    let s = unsafe {
                         str::from_utf8_unchecked(&wtf8_bytes[pos..])
-                    })?;
-                    return Ok(());
+                    };
+                    if pos == 0 {
+                        return s.fmt(formatter)
+                    } else {
+                        return formatter.write_str(s)
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/libstd_unicode/lib.rs b/src/libstd_unicode/lib.rs
index 698210e83f3e3..d568baa2cd770 100644
--- a/src/libstd_unicode/lib.rs
+++ b/src/libstd_unicode/lib.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 
 #![feature(core_char_ext)]
 #![feature(str_internals)]
-#![feature(core_intrinsics)]
 #![feature(decode_utf8)]
 #![feature(fused)]
 #![feature(fn_traits)]
diff --git a/src/libstd_unicode/lossy.rs b/src/libstd_unicode/lossy.rs
index b914cbcf4b85f..253dcb6a15951 100644
--- a/src/libstd_unicode/lossy.rs
+++ b/src/libstd_unicode/lossy.rs
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ use core::str as core_str;
 use core::fmt;
 use core::fmt::Write;
 use char;
-use core::intrinsics;
+use core::mem;
 
 
 /// Lossy UTF-8 string.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ impl Utf8Lossy {
     }
 
     pub fn from_bytes(bytes: &[u8]) -> &Utf8Lossy {
-        unsafe { intrinsics::transmute(bytes) }
+        unsafe { mem::transmute(bytes) }
     }
 
     pub fn chunks(&self) -> Utf8LossyChunksIter {
@@ -153,7 +153,21 @@ impl<'a> Iterator for Utf8LossyChunksIter<'a> {
 
 impl fmt::Display for Utf8Lossy {
     fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
+        // If we're the empty string then our iterator won't actually yield
+        // anything, so perform the formatting manually
+        if self.bytes.len() == 0 {
+            return "".fmt(f)
+        }
+
         for Utf8LossyChunk { valid, broken } in self.chunks() {
+            // If we successfully decoded the whole chunk as a valid string then
+            // we can return a direct formatting of the string which will also
+            // respect various formatting flags if possible.
+            if valid.len() == self.bytes.len() {
+                assert!(broken.is_empty());
+                return valid.fmt(f)
+            }
+
             f.write_str(valid)?;
             if !broken.is_empty() {
                 f.write_char(char::REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER)?;