+1 to having a String type that I can just use and it works if I don’t care about any of the encoding subtleties.
From: julia-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:julia-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stefan Karpinski Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 8:28 AM To: Julia Users <julia-users@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [julia-users] Why is String deprecated in favour of AbstractString? 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 <mailto: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.)
