From a101e0d7bac7897c89e1ab8eaed518b50dd2343c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gingerBill <bill@gingerbill.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 20:55:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add `utf8.string_to_runes` `utf8.runes_to_string`

---
 core/unicode/utf8/utf8.odin | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core/unicode/utf8/utf8.odin b/core/unicode/utf8/utf8.odin
index 6d0b32f48..5b4a6c7a0 100644
--- a/core/unicode/utf8/utf8.odin
+++ b/core/unicode/utf8/utf8.odin
@@ -128,6 +128,35 @@ decode_rune :: proc(s: []u8) -> (rune, int) {
 	return rune(s0&MASK4)<<18 | rune(b1&MASKX)<<12 | rune(b2&MASKX)<<6 | rune(b3&MASKX), 4;
 }
 
+string_to_runes :: proc(s: string, allocator := context.allocator) -> (runes: []rune) {
+	n := rune_count_in_string(s);
+
+	runes = make([]rune, n, allocator);
+	i := 0;
+	for r in s {
+		runes[i] = r;
+		i += 1;
+	}
+	return;
+}
+
+runes_to_string :: proc(runes: []rune, allocator := context.allocator) -> string {
+	byte_count := 0;
+	for r in runes {
+		_, w := encode_rune(r);
+		byte_count += w;
+	}
+
+	bytes := make([]byte, byte_count);
+	offset := 0;
+	for r in runes {
+		b, w := encode_rune(r);
+		copy(bytes[offset:], b[:w]);
+		offset += w;
+	}
+
+	return string(bytes);
+}
 
 
 decode_last_rune_in_string :: inline proc(s: string) -> (rune, int) do return decode_last_rune(transmute([]u8)s);