<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The review of SE-0027 "Expose code unit initializers on String” ran from February 11…16, 2016. The proposal has been <b class="">rejected</b>.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0027-string-from-code-units.md" class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0027-string-from-code-units.md</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At this point, the core team feels that we have not fully explored the design space here, and that known alternatives (e.g., making the UTF-16 and UTF-32 views of a String mutable collections) might provide a better long-term solution. Moreover, the String type itself is undergoing a significant re-evaluation, so the core team feels that improvements to String should be delayed until the newer design is better understood.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Doug Gregor</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Review Manager</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>