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

runtime/bin/dartutils.h

Index: runtime/bin/dartutils.h
===================================================================
--- runtime/bin/dartutils.h	(revision 14314)
+++ runtime/bin/dartutils.h	(working copy)
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@
   // 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..