Hi Cameron,
If the goal is to include this handling for UTF-16 and UTF-32, I suggest
proposing this to Erlang/OTP as new functions in the "unicode" module.
Otherwise, Elixir only has facilities to deal with UTF-8. You could propose
such a feature in their issues tracker.
Also note that "rolling
Your implementation is definitely fast and memory efficient so I retract my
implementation comments. Now that I've run the benchmarking script and
tested out a few different approaches leveraging the std lib I understand
better why you've taken the approach you have. Nice work.
On Saturday,
