The underlying CPU-specific instructions for operating on UTF-16 strings
behave differently for null inputs. Add an explicit check for this state
for consistency.
Utf16View currently assumes host endianness. Add support for specifying
either big or little endianness (which we mostly just pipe through to
simdutf). This will allow using simdutf facilities with LibTextCodec.
The one behavior difference is that we will now actually fail on invalid
code units with Utf16View::to_utf8(AllowInvalidCodeUnits::No). It was
arguably a bug that this wasn't already the case.
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)