to.str.utf8 reads a list or array of uint8 as UTF-8, and fails not_utf8 when they are not.
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# Bytes into text (owner, 2026-09-30: "yea"): `to.str.utf8` reads a list or array of uint8 as UTF-8,# and fails `not_utf8` when they are not. `é` is the two bytes 195, 169; 255 is never UTF-8.MAIN{let'good':list[uint8]=[104,195,169,108,108,111];let'bad':list[uint8]=[104,255,105];let'a':=to.str.utf8['good']otherwise"?";let'b':=to.str.utf8['bad']otherwise"not UTF-8";std::print.stored['a',newln,'b',newln];std::print.stored[str.points[lend'a']," points, ",str.bytes[lend'a']," bytes",newln];}