Extracted from Pike v7.8 release 866 at 2016-11-06.
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Method utf8_to_string()


Method utf8_to_string

string utf8_to_string(string s)
string utf8_to_string(string s, int extended)

Description

Converts an UTF-8 byte-stream into a string.

Note

Throws an error if the stream is not a legal UTF-8 byte-stream.

Accepts and decodes the extension used by string_to_utf8() if extended is 1.

Note

In conformance with RFC 3629 and Unicode 3.1 and later, non-shortest forms are not decoded. An error is thrown instead.

See also

Locale.Charset.encoder() , string_to_unicode() , string_to_utf8() , unicode_to_string()