question about utf-8, etc.

[williamstein]

Hello Tom,

I was about to implement a port of diff-match-patch to Zig, since I need it to optimize the realtime sync algorithm in https://cocalc.com/, and I found your project. I realize you just wrote this, it's alpha quality, and maybe you're not going to look at it again...

Are you happy with trying to do utf-8 directly, rather than using a library like https://github.com/jecolon/zigstr

I'm trying to decide to what extent to start from scratch using zigstr, or try to work on what you've written here. Skimming your code, I'm wondering the extent to which trying to deal with utf-8 directly in the context of []u8 and the zig core library started to become really painful or not.

Thanks for any comments at all!