On Wednesday, 18 April 2012 at 05:45:06 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote: > 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.
Indeed. I didn't mean otherwise. I was trying to explain why "The type of the return expression is dstring, not string."
And I just checked, again, that my use of "UTF-8 code units" above was correct. :) I didn't say "Unicode code points".
Ali
