printing utf-8 string

[Dmitry Ermolov]

Hi all,

I use protocol bufferst to serialize some strings, which encoded in
UTF-8.
When I use the function Print from "text_format.h", I get strings
like:

UtfField: "\321\202\320\265\321\201\321\202"

Is there some way to pretty-print such string itself, but not a binary
representation?

Thank you!

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Dmitry Ermolov

[Kenton Varda]

This has been discussed before but no one has gotten around to doing it.  I'd be happy to accept a patch which adds a method DontEscapeUtf8(bool) to TextFormat::Printer.  Of course, unprintable ASCII characters should still be escaped.