There's another reason: I am planning to use `String` as the name of a standard string type in a future version of Julia (hopefully 0.5). This string type will be UTF-8-like but can hold arbitrary data, which will distinguish if from the UTF8String type, which will enforce valid UTF-8 encoding.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Steven G. Johnson <stevenj....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 9:55:27 AM UTC-4, Steven G. Johnson wrote: >> >> The indices passed to strings in Julia are byte offsets, >> > > (Technically, they are codeunit offsets. In UTF-8, the codeunit is a > byte; in UTF-16, the codeunit is a 16-bit word.) >
