Just out of curiosity, and without even being sure, if a real use case
for something like this ever exists
With the new strings, the encoding is part of the data, not the type.
However most types force a specific encoding, therefore conversion occurs.
rawbytestring does not force a specific encoding. It keeps whatever
encoding the data has. the encoding however is still present, so
assigning to an type with enforced encoding will still do the converison
if required.
Now my question.
Is there (or going to be) an encoding, that is "unknown" and will never
be converted. but can be assigned to any of the types?
Of course I am aware, that this would have dangers. As it would bypass
the "enforced" encodings....
Anyway just asking
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