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May 21, 2013 14:54
Why you shouldn't go back and forth on UTF-8 strings for binary data
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| // Run in a REPL | |
| val bl : List[Byte] = List(-78,-5,-112,-31,127,-59,1,94,12,7,84,112,82,41,-95,50) | |
| val ba = bl.toArray | |
| val bs = new String(ba, "UTF-8") | |
| bl.length | |
| ba.length | |
| bs.length | |
| // Notice they aren't all equal |
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