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Add String.bytes + Character.bytes and possibly change Character constructor

See original GitHub issue

[@gavinking] We need to add bytes attributes to String and Character to get the UTF-8 encoding. We should also consider the problem of going in the other direction, Byte[]->Character/String, perhaps changing the constructor of Character to accept Byte[0]|Byte[2]|Byte[4].

[Migrated from ceylon/ceylon.language#519]

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Created 9 years ago
Comments:13 (1 by maintainers)

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gavinkingcommented, Aug 26, 2017

I’ve considered this issue several times, and always concluded it’s probably not a good idea. Closing.

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CeylonMigrationBotcommented, Nov 14, 2015

[@gavinking] Not for 1.1, since it seems there is no consensus on whether it would be a good thing.

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