Go strings are UTF-8 encoded as others have mentioned. This means that each
human readable character in the string is really a cluster of one or more
runes. Some characters are made up of one rune, some are made up of many.
Some runes combine with others to create different characters. Also,
Hello,
Strings are encoded using UTF-8, which is a multi-byte encoding. Different
runes require different lengths to be encoded, and the prefix you noted is
how that length is transmitted (although the ranges in your message don't
seem to be correct).
Robert
On Tuesday, 28 February 2017
I understand now, it's just the UTF-8 representation of these runes.
Even though ascii 128-255 are representable as single bytes (e.g. 0x80),
UTF-8 doesn't do it that way and prepends a byte.
The results seen in my output are shown as the UTF-8 representation in the
unicode tables:
Strings in Go are UTF-8, so it's expected.
See e.g. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00a9/index.htm
What bytes for © _would_ you expect? And why?
V.
Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2017 18:29:07 UTC+1 schrieb Fraser Hanson:
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> https://play.golang.org/p/05wZM9BhfB
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> I'm working on some
