Is there a "pure" Kotlin way to convert a UByteArr...

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[Sylvain Patenaude]

Is there a "pure" Kotlin way to convert a UByteArray into a UTF-8 string? Thanks!
Edit: If there's no built-in support for this, can I just convert my array (UByteArray -> ByteArray) and then call decodeToString on it?

[Shawn]

I don’t think you’ll want to convert from UByte to Byte unless you somehow don’t care about truncation or sign shenanigans

[E.Kisaragi]

call String(ByteArray, Charset)

[E.Kisaragi]

but there’s undefined behavior if the array contains invalid sequence

[ilya.gorbunov]

You can reinterpret an UByteArray as a ByteArray (by calling asByteArray() on it) and then call decodeToString()

[Sylvain Patenaude]

Hmm, I hadn't seen asByteArray() yet. Might be more adequate then the toByteArray() I used.