On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> What happens if I convert an entire buffer to a string using toString and
> the end of the buffer only has a partial character encoding?  Will it just
> ignore the extra byte(s)?  (This is what I want).  Or will it have garbage
> at the end of the string or throw an exception?

It will have garbage at the end.  More precisely, the partial
character gets replaced with the replacement character, U+FFFD.

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