Swift 2.1 [UInt8] --utf8--> String?

Question

I know questions like this exist on both Stack Overflow and elsewhere. But it seems to have evolved a lot as well.

Given a list of UInt8 (a swift byte a

Answer 1

let buffUInt8: Array = [97, 98, 115, 100, 114, 102, 103, 104, 0]

// you need Int8 array
let buffInt8 = buffUInt8.map{ Int8(bitPattern: $0)}
let str = String.fromCString(buffInt8) // "absdrfgh"

alternatively you can use

String.fromCStringRepairingIllFormedUTF8(cs: UnsafePointer) -> (String?, hadError: Bool)