Re: [Chicken-hackers] Numbers egg interaction with other compiled code.

[John Cowan]

Alex Shinn scripsit:

> On the other hand, in 95% of cases external libraries don't
> need to treat a string as utf8 and it will work fine.

Provided they don't mutate it or use string-ref directly, I agree.
But if you try to truncate a string to five characters, and what you
get is five bytes, Bad Things.

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