On Tuesday, 17 April 2012 at 15:36:39 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
The reason is, a sequence of UTF-8 code units are not a valid UTF-8 when reversed (or retro'ed :p). But a dchar array can be reversed.Ali
It is absolutely possible to walk a UTF-8 string backwards.The problem here is that arrays of char are ranges of dchar; hence you can't go the regular generic path and have to use text() instead.
