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.06/29/2016
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