Sorry, I did not mean to say they are restricted to UTF8. I was answering
the question "what is the relation between a rune and its byte
representation", by saying that the []byte cast of a string (assuming the
string only holds legitimate runes) is the UTF8 of the runes making it up.
The original
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 06:06:23PM +, '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 r
I don't know what you mean by "characters", since you're distinguishing
them from runes. Do you mean bytes?
Strings are specified to be UTF8, so if you cast a string to []byte you
will see its UTF8 representation.
Thomas
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 4:42 AM wrote:
>
> I understand that strings are
