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diff --git a/docs/frequently-asked-questions.rst b/docs/frequently-asked-questions.rst index b3667a11..c28b4ab7 100644 --- a/docs/frequently-asked-questions.rst +++ b/docs/frequently-asked-questions.rst @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ What character set does Solidity use? ===================================== Solidity is character set agnostic concerning strings in the source code, although -utf-8 is recommended. Identifiers (variables, functions, ...) can only use +UTF-8 is recommended. Identifiers (variables, functions, ...) can only use ASCII. What are some examples of basic string manipulation (``substring``, ``indexOf``, ``charAt``, etc)? @@ -741,15 +741,15 @@ see a 32-byte hex value, this is just ``"stringliteral"`` in hex. The type ``bytes`` is similar, only that it can change its length. Finally, ``string`` is basically identical to ``bytes`` only that it is assumed -to hold the utf-8 encoding of a real string. Since ``string`` stores the -data in utf-8 encoding it is quite expensive to compute the number of +to hold the UTF-8 encoding of a real string. Since ``string`` stores the +data in UTF-8 encoding it is quite expensive to compute the number of characters in the string (the encoding of some characters takes more than a single byte). Because of that, ``string s; s.length`` is not yet supported and not even index access ``s[2]``. But if you want to access the low-level byte encoding of the string, you can use ``bytes(s).length`` and ``bytes(s)[2]`` which will result in the number -of bytes in the utf-8 encoding of the string (not the number of -characters) and the second byte (not character) of the utf-8 encoded +of bytes in the UTF-8 encoding of the string (not the number of +characters) and the second byte (not character) of the UTF-8 encoded string, respectively. diff --git a/docs/types.rst b/docs/types.rst index 486e8b82..12a35aaf 100644 --- a/docs/types.rst +++ b/docs/types.rst @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Dynamically-sized byte array ``bytes``: Dynamically-sized byte array, see :ref:`arrays`. Not a value-type! ``string``: - Dynamically-sized UTF8-encoded string, see :ref:`arrays`. Not a value-type! + Dynamically-sized UTF-8-encoded string, see :ref:`arrays`. Not a value-type! As a rule of thumb, use ``bytes`` for arbitrary-length raw byte data and ``string`` for arbitrary-length string (UTF-8) data. If you can limit the length to a certain |