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cross-platform way to obtain UTF8 bytes

See original GitHub issue

Currently there is no cross-platform way to convert a String to a UTF8 byte stream or array. I’ve long thought this was a bit silly, since it’s an easy-enough operation in both Java and JS. We currently have ceylon.buffer.charset, but that’s JVM-only, and carries a bunch of baggage.

I think this is a reasonable thing to add to the language module, but where should it go:

String itself?
process or runtime?

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Created 5 years ago
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Comments:31 (31 by maintainers)

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lucaswerkmeistercommented, Apr 11, 2018

Honestly, I for one would be perfectly happy leaving this in ceylon.buffer.

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gavinkingcommented, Apr 3, 2018

Well I think with the API I just proposed, performance is going to be just fine

Oh, well now I’m not so sure. There doesn’t seem any way in the java.nio stuff to do character-by-character encoding/decoding without allocating a ByteBuffer and a CharacterBuffer for each character. I suppose that’s just prohibitively slow.