<div dir="ltr">Sorry... forgot to reply all.<div><br></div><div>To put it more succinctly: rather than assume that anywhere you have a string/stream it's just as good to substitute a Unicode string/stream, it really seems like it should be opt-in via #asUnicodeString or #asUniFileStream for coercion or explicit at instance creation time. That makes the contract clear and you don't get something other than what you want/need.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 11:52 AM Phil B <<a href="mailto:pbpublist@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbpublist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I hear what you're saying but that assumption breaks a lot of code. They are *similar* to String, but they are actually very different creatures and only superficially protocol compatible<span style="background-color:transparent">. (i.e. you often cannot substitute a UnicodeString for a String without severely breaking things... even when 'String' is nowhere in the source code that breaks) I have had to ugly up a lot of code to get out of the implicit opt-in to Unicode that Cuis has done on this front.[1] Please don't rename String... that would make things 100x worse.</span><div><span style="background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent">[1] </span><span style="background-color:transparent">i.e. 'where the hell did that UnicodeString come from?' when I didn't want it... usually when dealing with a DNU error dialog. Even when I resolve the DNU, the breakage often continues on down the chain because you can't just substitute UnicodeString for String when you're dealing with FFI, web APIs, file formats etc.</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 11:16 AM Juan Vuletich <<a href="mailto:juan@cuis.st" target="_blank">juan@cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Phil,<br>
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On 2026-07-01 10:27 AM, Phil B via Cuis-dev wrote:<br>
> Is there a reason UnicodeString asString returns self rather than a <br>
> String?<br>
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Yes. UnicodeStrings are conceptually Strings. Perhaps we'd rename String <br>
as ByteString, and CharacterSequence as String.<br>
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In any case, just use #asByteString that does what you want.<br>
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