https://github.com/juliastrings/legacystrings.jl

Legacy Unicode string types
https://github.com/juliastrings/legacystrings.jl

ascii julia strings unicode utf-16 utf-32

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Legacy Unicode string types

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/juliastrings/legacystrings.jl
• Owner: JuliaStrings
• License: other
• Created: 2016-06-29T00:32:03.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-05-03T16:39:13.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-12T20:04:03.500Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: ascii, julia, strings, unicode, utf-16, utf-32
• Language: Julia
• Size: 93.8 KB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 18
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# LegacyStrings

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The LegacyStrings package provides compatibility string types from Julia 0.5 (and earlier), which were removed in subsequent versions, including:

- `ASCIIString`: a single-byte-per character string type that can only hold ASCII string data.

- `UTF8String`: a string type with single byte code units (`UInt8`), encoding strings as UTF-8.

- `UTF16String`: a string type with two-byte native-endian code units (`UInt16`), encoding strings as UTF-16.

- `UTF32String`: a string type with four-byte native-endian code units (`UInt32`), encoding strings as UTF-32.

- `ByteString`: a type alias for `Union{ASCIIString,UTF8String}`, i.e. strings that can be passed to C directly.

- `WString`: an alias for `UTF16String` if `Cwchart_t` is two bytes (i.e. Windows) or `UTF32String` otherwise.

- `RepString`: a string type for efficient handling of repeated strings.

LegacyStrings also defines and exports converter functions for these types, i.e.:

- `ascii`: convert to `ASCIIString`; since `Base` exports an `ascii` function as well, you must explicitly do `import LegacyStrings: ascii` or write `LegacyStrings.ascii` in order to use this function rather than `Base.ascii`.

- `utf8`: convert to `UTF8String`.

- `utf16`: convert to `UTF16String`.

- `utf32`: convert to `UTF32String`.

- `wstring`: alias for `utf16` or `utf32` according to what `WString` is an alias to.