Thank you both for your answers. It is much appreciated. The UTF8 encoding of that codepoint is three bytes. So the rune will still occupy 4 bytes, even if the last byte holds no data? I'm sorry for the school boy question!
Thank you. On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, 10:52 Tamás Gulácsi <tgulacs...@gmail.com wrote: > A rune is an int32, so it takes 4 bytes by definition. > A string in a struct with position, length and backing array of bytes. The > backing array here consumes 3 bytes, but tge position and length occupies > space too, so the string of that rune occupies more than 3 bytes after all. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/-bvJLkhX_dY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, 10:52 Tamás Gulácsi <tgulacs...@gmail.com wrote: > A rune is an int32, so it takes 4 bytes by definition. > A string in a struct with position, length and backing array of bytes. The > backing array here consumes 3 bytes, but tge position and length occupies > space too, so the string of that rune occupies more than 3 bytes after all. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-nuts/-bvJLkhX_dY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
