[julia-users] Re: String(Vector{UInt8}) Question

2016-10-05 Thread Steven G. Johnson
On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 12:01:32 AM UTC-4, josh...@fastmail.com wrote: > > OK, I understand now: they're continuation bytes for UTF-8 and can't > appear in that context so they get stripped from the string representation. > They don't get stripped — invalid data is still stored in the

[julia-users] Re: String(Vector{UInt8}) Question

2016-10-04 Thread joshbode
OK, I understand now: they're continuation bytes for UTF-8 and can't appear in that context so they get stripped from the string representation. On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 2:38:54 PM UTC+11, josh...@fastmail.com wrote: > > Hello julia-users, > > I'm scratching my head as to the following b