How to set character encoding in golang

Golang is a programming language that supports multi-character encoding and can easily handle various international character sets. When developing applications with Golang, it is very important to set the character encoding correctly. This article will introduce how to set character encoding in Golang.

1. Character encoding introduction

Character encoding is a way of mapping characters to numbers. It was created for storing, transmitting and processing text in computers. Common character encodings include ASCII, UTF-8, GBK, GB18030, etc.

ASCII encoding was developed by the American Standard Code for Information Interchange and contains only 128 characters, including basic Latin characters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc.

UTF-8 encoding is an implementation of the Unicode standard. It uses variable length encoding and can represent all Unicode characters and can span multiple bytes to represent a character.

GBK and GB18030 encoding are Chinese character set encodings. GBK encoding supports Simplified Chinese characters, and GB18030 encoding supports Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese characters. When using these two encodings, you need to choose the corresponding encoding method according to specific application scenarios and needs.

2. Setting the character encoding in Golang

In Golang, setting the character encoding requires the use of the unicode/utf8 package. The utf8 package provides some useful functions to handle UTF-8 encoded characters, the most commonly used functions are utf8.RuneCountInString() and utf8.RuneLen().

When processing strings, Golang uses UTF-8 encoding by default. You can control the number of threads by setting the environment variable GOMAXPROCS to improve program performance.

The following code demonstrates how to set character encoding in Golang:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "unicode/utf8"
)

func main() {
    str := "Hello, 世界！"

    // 输出字符串长度
    fmt.Printf("字符串长度：%d\n", len(str))

    // 输出字符数
    fmt.Printf("字符数：%d\n", utf8.RuneCountInString(str))

    // 输出每个字符所占字节数
    for i, ch := range str {
        fmt.Printf("字符%d: %c，字节数：%d\n", i, ch, utf8.RuneLen(ch))
    }
}

In the above code, a string containing English and Chinese characters is first defined. Then use the len() function to get the length of the string, and then use the utf8.RuneCountInString() function to get the number of characters in the string. Finally, use a for loop to output the number of bytes occupied by each character.

3. Summary

In Golang, it is very important to set the character encoding correctly. By mastering the functions provided by the unicode/utf8 package, you can easily handle characters of different encodings. At the same time, when processing Chinese characters, it is necessary to choose an appropriate encoding method according to specific application scenarios and needs.

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