Although true, the aim of the transition was to enforce encoding-correctness. Operations on strs should never break the encoding itself[1], but preserving the s

Although true, the aim of the transition was to enforce encoding-correctness. Operations on strs should never break the encoding itself[1], but preserving the semantic meaning of the text itself is basically impossible for arbitrary data. [1] Sadly surrogate escapes break this. Rust's division into String:OsString:Vec<u8> makes that aspect a lot cleaner.