encode_unicode

Alternatives and extensions to to the unstable char.encode_utf{8,16}() methods.

Features:

• Utf8Char: A char stored as UTF-8. Can be borrowed as a str.
• Utf16Char: A char stored as UTF-16. Can be borrowed as a u16 slice.
• Conversion methods on char:
  • to UTF-8 as [u8; 4] or into &mut[u8]. and vice versa.
  • to UTF-16 as (u16, Option<u16>) or into &mut[u16]. and vice versa.
• Precise errors when decoding a char fro9m UTF-8, UTF-16 or u32 fails.

[See the documentation for the remaining.

The goal was to fill in those methods for stable via a trait, but that didn't work since the methods already exist; they're just un-callable.

Optional Features:

• no_std: Use #[no_std]; There are some differences:
  • AsciiExt doesn't exist, but is_ascii() is made available as an inherent impl.
  • Error doesn't exist, but description() is made available as an inherent impl.
  • There is no io, so Utf8Iterator doesn't implement Read.
  • The iterators doesn't implement Debug.
• ascii: Convert Utf8Char and Utf16Char to and from ascii::AsciiChar.
• ascii_no_std: You need to use this feature instead of both ascii and no_std.
  This is because the ascii crate needs to know about #[no_std], but the features are otherwize independent.

The tests require nightly because they use compare against encode_utf{8,16}(),

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

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