I have a part in my code that use remove
buffer.remove(tuple(0, size));
with
char[] buffer
What I discovered is that remove doesn't really remove size
number of bytes but also removed entire multibyte characters and
consider that one step. The result was of course that I got out
of bounds exceptions as it went past the end.
When I changed char[] to ubyte[] my code started to work
correctly again.
According to the documentation a char is an "unsigned 8 bit
(UTF-8 code unit)" so you really believe you are working on
bytes. I presume that under the hood there are range iterators at
work and those work multibyte characters. However you can iterate
over one byte characters as well as an option and you don't know
what happens underneath.
I'm a bit confused, when should I expect that the primitives work
with single versus multibyte chars in array operations?
