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Re:JEP254: proposal to represent Java Strings as ISO-8859-1 by needusername on Sunday May 17, 2015 @12:53PM (#9560701)
Not using String, eg. using CharBuffer (and #slice) or building your own. It's annoying and not always an option.
Re:JEP254: proposal to represent Java Strings as ISO-8859-1 by TheLoneWolfling on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @12:07AM (#9574600)
Yep, as you said, not always an option. No way to pass them to external things expecting strings, for one. Wouldn't be an issue, except that you can't extend strings.