Folks, Currently binary marshaller always encodes strings in UTF-8. However, sometimes it can be useful to customize this. For example, if data contains a lot of Cyrillic, Chinese or other symbols, but not so many Latin symbols, memory is used very inefficiently. In this case it would be great to encode most frequently used symbols in one byte instead of two or three.
I propose to introduce BinaryStringEncoder interface that will convert strings to byte arrays and back, and make it pluggable via BinaryConfiguration. This will allow users to plug in any encoding algorithms based on their requirements. Thoughts? https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-5655 -Val
