Handles both C and binary strings; Light-weight references to strings: cheap to create, copy, or pass by value; Support for copy and move semantics, although not enforceable by the C language; String ...

We all use text-based fields at one time or another, and being limited to ASCII only can end up being a limitation. That’s what led [Luke Wren] to create asciiwave, a fantastic tool that turns ...

Base128 encoding, the intersection of latin1 and utf-8, which is basically ASCII, the most memory-efficient string encoding that can be written to disk as utf-8 without ballooning in size.