BERT 2.0 Proposal: New complex type - {bert, string, Encoding, Binary} (

#1)

Read
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!starred/bert-rpc/taDWDjahiEI
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!starred/bert-rpc/s8zae3ajpjE

So, using utf8 by default

{bert, string, String}

src/bert.erl

@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ encode_term(Term) ->
       TList = tuple_to_list(Tuple),
       TList2 = lists:map((fun encode_term/1), TList),
       list_to_tuple(TList2);
+    {bert, string, String} when is_list(String) ->
+      %% Unicode list to binary utf8
+      Bin = unicode:characters_to_binary(String, utf8),
+      {bert, string, Bin};
     _Else -> Term
   end.
 
@@ -57,6 +61,8 @@ decode_term(Term) ->
     {bert, false} -> false;
     {bert, dict, Dict} ->
       dict:from_list(Dict);
+    {bert, string, L} when is_list(L) ->
+      L;
     {bert, Other} ->
       {bert, Other};
     List when is_list(Term) ->
@@ -66,4 +72,4 @@ decode_term(Term) ->
       TList2 = lists:map((fun decode_term/1), TList),
       list_to_tuple(TList2);
     _Else -> Term
-  end.
+  end.