Why isn't it possible to pass a charset to `ByteAr...

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[Albert]

Why isn't it possible to pass a charset to ByteArray.decodeToString with kotlin 1.3.40?

[serebit]

If charsets are JVM-only, then that's probably why. The new functions in kotlin 1.3.40 are platform-agnostic

[Albert]

For JVM specifically I think this can lead to confusion as with encoding/decoding it will take the system default.

[Albert]

Naming it ByteArray.decodeToUtf8String is probably more clear for every platform

[gildor]

Than it will not allow to evolve this API in future

[gildor]

If one day common will have support of different encodings it will be just added as param with default UTF8 value

[gildor]

also many existing Kotlin API already use UTF8 as default

[ilya.gorbunov]

We plan to provide common decodeToString with Charset in kotlinx-io library