Re:Maintain It with Zig
by coldtea on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:33AM
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>In something like Zig I think it's OK that it's merely a stated assumption that these bytes are UTF-8, not actually checked - so long as people take that seriously.
And also as long as all supported operations on those bytes still result in utf-8 strings (there could be unsafe operations too, like splitting at a random byte offset, but there should be a clearly marked safe set that wont corrupt a valid utf-8 byte sequence).
And also as long as all supported operations on those bytes still result in utf-8 strings (there could be unsafe operations too, like splitting at a random byte offset, but there should be a clearly marked safe set that wont corrupt a valid utf-8 byte sequence).