Java's strings, UTF-8 etc

[Zenaan Harkness]

Hi Brian, in case it is of interest, I did an exploration over a week or two, and wrote up that journey here:

https://zenaan.github.io/zen/javadoc/zen/lang/string.html

See also of course:

https://github.com/zenaan/zen

And for reference, see also:

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2016-November/004065.html

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2016-November/004070.html

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2016-November/004072.html


(I was hoping to one day do a proof of concept for byte array backed UTF-8 strings in Java, but have not returned to this little project - in any case, I do believe this would be a fundamental improvement to the core of Java.)

Best regards,
Zenaan