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Bytevector contents can also be interpreted as Unicode strings encoded in one of the most commonly available encoding formats. See Representing Strings as Bytes, for a more generic interface.
(utf8->string (u8-list->bytevector '(99 97 102 101))) ⇒ "cafe" (string->utf8 "café") ;; SMALL LATIN LETTER E WITH ACUTE ACCENT ⇒ #vu8(99 97 102 195 169)
Return the number of bytes in the UTF-8 representation of str.
Return a newly allocated bytevector that contains the UTF-8, UTF-16, or
UTF-32 (aka. UCS-4) encoding of str. For UTF-16 and UTF-32,
endianness should be the symbol big
or little
; when omitted,
it defaults to big endian.
Return a newly allocated string that contains from the UTF-8-, UTF-16-,
or UTF-32-decoded contents of bytevector utf. For UTF-16 and UTF-32,
endianness should be the symbol big
or little
; when omitted,
it defaults to big endian.