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In Java at least, you can write your own Charset implementation then the language will support it normally. This uses the byte raw access I'm ranting about to w

• lmm 7y ago
  Yes and no - a Java Charset is something that can convert from a buffer of bytes to a buffer of utf16 code units. In Java that happens to be the internal representation of a String, but it doesn't have to be - you just need built in support for encoding/decoding a string as utf16. A simple proof of this is that you can write custom character sets in Python too, even though there's no way to have raw byte access to a Python character (because it's different on different platforms/builds).