OK, thank you ! Le mardi 20 août 2019 10:34:55 UTC+2, djeg...@gmail.com a écrit : > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:12 AM Pierre Durand wrote: > > > > I know that by convention Go string contain UTF-8 encoded text. > > To my understanding this is not entirely true -- see > https://blog.golang.org/strings#TOC_2. -- It is simply a readonly slice > of bytes. However there is at least 2 places where UTF-8 encoding is used > for strings in the language spec: source code file is expected to be UTF-8 > (thus string literals are partially influenced), and when using the `for > range` construct on a string. Otherwise there are various packages (e.g. > unicode/utf8) which expect UTF-8 encoded strings as arguments. > > > Is it recommended/a good practice to store invalid bytes in a string ? > > Thus the concept of _invalid bytes in a string_ doesn't really exist ;-). > > > The use case: > > - compute a hash => get a []byte > > - convert the []byte to string (this string is not UTF-8 valid) > > - use the string as a map key > > I don't see any issues with this. >
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