Demonstration of Rust string issues

Demonstration of Rust string issues, such as UTF-8 encoding, accents, etc.

Feedback welcome.

This repo is based on the artice about string handling here:

• https://mortoray.com/2013/11/27/the-string-type-is-broken/

This code is tested on Rust 1.5.3:

$ rustc --version                                                                     
rustc 1.53.0

To use this code, download it and run it as usual for Rust:

cargo run

Output:

Does it print correctly? noël
What is the character length? 4
What is the reverse? lëon
What are the first three characters? noë
Does it print correctly? 😸😾
What is the character length? 2
What is the reverse? 😾😸
What is the substring after the first character? 😾

Tracking:

• Package: demo-rust-string-issues
• Version: 1.1.0
• Updated: 2021-06-23T02:42:18Z
• License: BSD or GPL or MIT
• Contact: Joel Parker Henderson [email protected]