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Currently the data has only ASCII (1byte character) data.

Most likely the real projects will have Unicode strings, with multi-language support, and by mocking the data with only a subset of the Unicode may lead to future problems.

Todo:

• check all the current functionalities that presumes 1 character = 1 byte (example Password.go)
• insert non-ASCII texts inside all /data files
• create new /data files with only non-ASCII runes
• create a Emoji() functionality

Currently the /data files only contains English words.

To decide:

• add specific functions and data sets: NameFrench, NameRussian ... to keep the backward compatibility
• or add the new data inside the current data sets (deterministic results will brake, like Examples, because of the % of the length).

It seems that http://pipsum.com/ is not longer working, we need to find a replacement.

The main idea is to send to fastfaker a template and it will replace its content with random data.

Example:
fastFaker.Global().Template("My name is ~name~", "~") will return a string that replaces the variable name with the result of the function Name(). The string can be anything from a HTML template to a marshalled JSON/YML.

The functionality is similar ith the Generate() current function, but I wrote a more general and optimal version in other repo Pseudoservice as a wrapper, but I think it belongs here https://github.com/bgadrian/pseudoservice/blob/master/CUSTOM.md

Why ?

The current template system {person.name} is limited to the lists from /data, while the new Template system will take advantage of all faker public functions (over 130).

The first step was to make more functions available as a simple func() string ones 24c236b

Find a way to keep the package import path and functionality the same, while moving most of the files in one or more sub packages.

If we split it in more packages, the problem is a hard nut because all the submodules (person, vehicle, number ...) must share a common state, and that is the rand.Rand generator and also be a composite in the Faker structure.