https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14519
Martin Nowak <c...@dawg.eu> changed:
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--- Comment #23 from Martin Nowak <c...@dawg.eu> ---
(In reply to Vladimir Panteleev from comment #20)
> (In reply to Marc Schütz from comment #18)
> > Data with other (or unknown) encodings needs to be stored in `ubyte[]`.
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> Have you tried using ubyte[] to process ASCII text? It's horrible, you have
> to cast at every step, and nothing in std.string works even when it should.
No one is suggesting you operate on ubyte[] as string.
What people are is saying is you should validate a ubyte[] array before
converting it to a string. This is by the way how readText works. You'll have
to cast raw data to string to get strings with invalid UTF.
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