- Represent strings internally in UTF-16 format, this makes it

runtime/bin/dartutils.h

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #ifndef BIN_DARTUTILS_H_
 #define BIN_DARTUTILS_H_
 
 #include "bin/builtin.h"
 #include "bin/utils.h"
 #include "include/dart_api.h"
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                                              Dart_Handle builtin_lib);
 
   static bool PostNull(Dart_Port port_id);
   static bool PostInt32(Dart_Port port_id, int32_t value);
 
   // Create a new Dart OSError object with the current OS error.
   static Dart_Handle NewDartOSError();
   // Create a new Dart OSError object with the provided OS error.
   static Dart_Handle NewDartOSError(OSError* os_error);
 
+  // Create a new Dart String object from a C String.
+  static Dart_Handle NewString(const char* str) {
+    ASSERT((str != NULL) && (strlen(str) != 0));
+    return Dart_NewStringFromUTF8(reinterpret_cast<const uint8_t*>(str),
+                                  strlen(str));
+  }
+
   static void SetOriginalWorkingDirectory();
 
   // Global state that stores the original working directory..
   static const char* original_working_directory;
 
   static const char* kDartScheme;
   static const char* kDartExtensionScheme;
   static const char* kBuiltinLibURL;
   static const char* kCoreLibURL;
   static const char* kCoreImplLibURL;
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   void* Peer() const { return cobject_->value.as_external_byte_array.peer; }
   Dart_PeerFinalizer Callback() const {
     return cobject_->value.as_external_byte_array.callback;
   }
 
  private:
   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(CObjectExternalUint8Array);
 };
 
 #endif  // BIN_DARTUTILS_H_