Re: [Pharo-dev] Better management of encoding of environment variables

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 05:39:53 -0800 


> On 18 Jan 2019, at 14:23, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I think that will just overcomplicate things. Right now, all Strings in Pharo 
> are unicode strings. Characters are represented with their corresponding 
> unicode codepoint.
> If all characters in a string have codepoints < 256 then they are just stored 
> in a bytestring. Otherwise they are WideStrings.
> 
> I think assuming a single representation for strings, and then encode when 
> interacting with external apps/APIs is MUCH simpler.

Absolutely !

(and yes I know that for outgoing FFI calls that might mean a UTF-8 encoding 
step, so be it).


























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