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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