On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 06:06:23PM +0000, 'Thomas Bushnell, BSG' via golang-nuts wrote: > Strings are specified to be UTF8, so if you cast a string to []byte you > will see its UTF8 representation.
They are not. A Go string may contain arbitrary bytes. Features like for..range or conversions to rune slices won't be very useful then (though still well-defined) but that's about it. Go source text and thus string literals are UTF-8. You might be thinking of those? -ls -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
