rawstring provides a string type that can hold data that may or not be valid UTF-8.

Overview

Rust's standard [String] and &str types require valid UTF-8, which can be limiting when working with arbitrary binary data. This crate provides the following types as alternatives:

• [RawStr]: a borrowed view of raw string data
• [RawString]: an owned raw string type

[RawStr] and [RawString] differ from &[u8] and Vec<u8> in that they are treated as text rather than binary data. For example, both types' [Debug] and [Display] implementations handle invalid UTF-8 gracefully by replacing invalid sequences with the Unicode replacement character (�). This makes them suitable for logging, user output, and other contexts where human-readable text is desired.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.