Sounds interesting. I am very naive when it comes to strings. What re the advantages of the planned String type that can hold arbitrary data? What are the problems with UTF8?
Cheers, Daniel. On 28 September 2015 at 17:27, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org> wrote: > 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.) >> > >
