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On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 09:40:49PM -0500, Felipe Gasper wrote: > > >> The UTF8 flag doesn't mark a SV (with PV) as a character string. A SV > >> (with PV) without the UTF8 flag may be a character string. > > > > Just to clarify: such a “character string” can only contain code points 0-255, right? Whereas a character string *with* the UTF8 flag may contain any code point? > > Follow-up question: does any binary/text-aware encoder (CBOR, Sereal, etc.) ever encode a non-UTF8-flag SV as text rather than binary? I don't know, and it's irrelevant. That isn't the purpose of the SVfUTF8 flag. Code that uses the SVfUTF8 flag to decide whether a string should be interpreted as octets or characters is broken. The developer should decide this when they define the interface to a function/class, the same as when you decide a parameter is a name or an address. TonyThread Previous | Thread Next