StringToBytes/BytesToString broken for some characters

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Had the same issue with 4.26.2, the Unreal engine issue report says they will not fix it. (Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-33889))

I dont fully understand the implications of the null pointer terminator described in their comment:

// Put the byte into an int16 and add 1 to it, this keeps anything from being put into the string as a null terminator

But anyway I created my own function just removing the +1. So far seems to work ok in my case, where I’m reading a string from an HTTP request.

  inline FString MyBytesToString(const uint8* In, int32 Count)
  {
  FString Result;
  Result.Empty(Count);

  while (Count)
  {
    int16 Value = *In;

    Result += TCHAR(Value);

    ++In;
    Count--;
  }
  return Result;

}