String.Index has an encodedOffset-based initializer and computed
property that exists for serialization purposes. It was documented as
UTF-16 in the SE proposal introducing it, which was String's
underlying encoding at the time, but the dream of String even then was
to abstract away whatever encoding happend to be used.
Serialization needs an explicit encoding for serialized indices to
make sense: the offsets need to align with the view. With String
utilizing UTF-8 encoding for native contents in Swift 5, serialization
isn't necessarily the most efficient in UTF-16.
Furthermore, the majority of usage of encodedOffset in the wild is
buggy and operates under the assumption that a UTF-16 code unit was a
Swift Character, which isn't even valid if the String is known to be
all-ASCII (because CR-LF).
This change introduces a pair of semantics-preserving alternatives to
encodedOffset that explicitly call out the UTF-16 assumption. These
serve as a gentle off-ramp for current mis-uses of encodedOffset.
After rebasing on master and incorporating more 32-bit support,
perform a bunch of cleanup, documentation updates, comments, move code
back to String declaration, etc.
This is a giant squashing of a lot of individual changes prototyping a
switch of String in Swift 5 to be natively encoded as UTF-8. It
includes what's necessary for a functional prototype, dropping some
history, but still leaves plenty of history available for future
commits.
My apologies to anyone trying to do code archeology between this
commit and the one prior. This was the lesser of evils.
This property is too specific in that it forces a particular normalization; let's not expose it this way, but instead in the future with a full normalization API.
Restore (un-revert) sting comparison, with fixes
More exhaustive testing of opaque strings, which consistently reproduces prior sporadic failure. Shims fixups. Some test tweaking.
