class
	NATIVE_STRING

General
	cluster: elks
	description: 
		"Platform specific encoding of Unicode strings. By default, UTF-8 on unix or UTF-16 on Windows.
		
		Mixed-encoding consideration
		============================
		
		Most operating systems have conventions for strings that are incompatible with Unicode.
		On UNIX, a string is just a null-terminated byte sequence, it does not follow any
		specific encoding. Usually the locale setting enables you to see the string the way
		you expect.
		On Windows, the sequence of names is made of null-terminated UTF-16 code unit sequence. Windows
		does not guarantee that the sequence is actually a valid UTF-16 sequence.
		
		In other words, when there is an invalid UTF-8 encoding on UNIX, or an invalid UTF-16 encoding
		on Windows, the string is not directly representable as a Unicode string. To make it possible
		to create and store strings in a textually representable form, the query string will create
		an encoded representation that can be then later used in make to create a NATIVE_STRING
		equivalent to the original string. The encoding is described in UTF_CONVERTER's note clause
		and is a fourth variant of the recommended practice for replacement characters in Unicode
		(see http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-121.html).
		"
	create: make, make_empty, make_from_pointer, make_from_raw_string

Ancestors
	NATIVE_STRING_HANDLER

Queries
	bytes_count: INTEGER_32
	capacity: INTEGER_32
	is_empty: BOOLEAN
	is_equal (other: [like Current] NATIVE_STRING): BOOLEAN
	item: POINTER
	managed_data: MANAGED_POINTER
	raw_string: STRING_8
	string: STRING_32
	substring (start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER_32): STRING_32
	unit_count: INTEGER_32
	unit_size: INTEGER_32

Commands
	set_shared_from_pointer (a_ptr: POINTER)
	set_shared_from_pointer_and_count (a_ptr: POINTER; a_length: INTEGER_32)
	set_string (a_string: READABLE_STRING_GENERAL)
	set_substring (a_string: READABLE_STRING_GENERAL; start_pos, end_pos: INTEGER_32)

Constraints
	little endian windows
	even count on windows

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