Of course it doesn't enforce encoding, it needs to be able to handle invalid data, bad encoding etc. if it wants to be a system language. You can trivially enfo

Of course it doesn't enforce encoding, it needs to be able to handle invalid data, bad encoding etc. if it wants to be a system language. You can trivially enforce it's valid utf-8 if that's what your application requires by using the `@import("std").unicode` package.