UTF-8 string literals about virgil HOT 2 OPEN

You're right, that's a bug. It should handle UTF-8 in string literals, but it does not yet.

I was planning on improving the support for unicode by changing the string type (currently an alias for Array<byte>), but this is something that could maybe supported by just allowing the UTF-8 representation through.

from virgil.

Thanks.

A workaround is to convert UTF-8 strings to hex byte values with, for example:

$ echo -n "Hello World ©" | od -A n -t x1 | tr -d '\n' | sed 's/ /\\x/g'
\x48\x65\x6c\x6c\x6f\x20\x57\x6f\x72\x6c\x64\x20\xc2\xa9

from virgil.