Aah... Well at least it gives utf8 when you have a non-ascii symbol in the
string. Thanks for pointing me to why this is happening!
On Sunday, 26 July 2015 12:39:15 UTC+2, Scott Jones wrote:
> I really don't think this has anything to do with Julia's promotion rules,
> but rather, the way the `string` function works (and `x*y` where x and y
> are strings is really just `string(x,y)`)
>
> On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 6:37:01 AM UTC-4, Michael Louwrens wrote:
>>
>> I noticed that this also happens:
>> julia> x =utf16("string 1")
>> "string 1"
>>
>> julia> y = utf8(" string2")
>> " string2"
>>
>> julia> println(typeof(x), "\t", typeof(y),"\t" ,typeof(y*x))
>> UTF16String UTF8String ASCIIString
>>
>> It seems Julia is always promoting to the simplest type that
>> can represent the string. It seems that this was an intentional choice.
>>
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