pub fn array_to_utf8<const X: usize>(array: [u8; X]) -> Result<String, std::string::FromUtf8Error> { String::from_utf8(array.to_vec()) .map(|mut s| { if let Some(index) = s.find("\u{0}") { s.truncate(index); } s }) } // TODO: const fn version of this! (helpful with tests) #[macro_export] macro_rules! utf8_to_array { ($s: expr, $size: expr) => { { let mut array = [0u8; $size]; let bytes = $s.as_bytes(); array[..bytes.len()].clone_from_slice(&bytes); array } } } #[macro_export] macro_rules! utf8_to_utf16_array { ($s: expr, $size: expr) => { { let mut array = [0u16; $size]; //let bytes = $s.as_bytes(); let bytes = $s.encode_utf16().collect::<Vec<_>>(); array[..bytes.len()].clone_from_slice(&bytes); array } } } #[cfg(test)] mod test { #[test] fn test_utf8_to_array() { let s = "asdf".to_owned(); let a = utf8_to_array!(s, 8); let mut e = [0u8; 8]; e[..4].clone_from_slice(b"asdf"); assert!(a == e); } #[test] fn utf8_to_utf16_array() { let utf16 = utf8_to_utf16_array!("asdf", 16); assert!(utf16 == [97, 115, 100, 102, 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]) } #[test] fn utf8_to_utf16_array_unicode() { let utf16 = utf8_to_utf16_array!("あいうえお", 16); assert!(utf16 == [0x3042 , 0x3044, 0x3046, 0x3048, 0x304A, 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]) } }