On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 07:48:34 UTC, Chris wrote:
import std.array : array;
import std.stdio : writefln;
import std.uni : byCodePoint, byGrapheme;
import std.utf : byCodeUnit;
void main() {
string first = "á";
writefln("%d", first.length); // prints 2
auto firstCU = "á".byCodeUnit; // type is `ByCodeUnitImpl` (!)
writefln("%d", firstCU.length); // prints 2
auto firstGr = "á".byGrapheme.array; // type is `Grapheme[]`
writefln("%d", firstGr.length); // prints 1
auto firstCP = "á".byCodePoint.array; // type is `dchar[]`
writefln("%d", firstCP.length); // prints 1
dstring second = "á";
writefln("%d", second.length); // prints 1 (That was easy!)
// DMD64 D Compiler v2.081.2
}
So Unicode in D works EXACTLY as expected, yet people in this
thread act as if the house is on fire.
D dying because of auto-decoding? Who can possibly think that in
its right mind?
The worst part of this forum is that suddenly everyone, by virtue
of posting in a newsgroup, is an annointed language design expert.
Let me break that to you: core developer are language experts.
The rest of us are users, that yes it doesn't make us necessarily
qualified to design a language.
