Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > Arrays of char and wchar are not quite generic - they are definitely UTF > strings.
A 'char' is a single utf-8 code unit. A 'char[]' is (or should be) a generic array of utf-8 code units. Sometimes these code units line up to form valid unicode code points, sometimes they don't. If you want a data type that always contains a valid utf-8 string, don't call it 'char[]'. It's misleading, it breaks generic code, and it renders built-in arrays useless for when you actually want an array of utf-8 code units. It's the same mistake as std::vector<bool> in C++, but much worse. -- Rainer Deyke - rain...@eldwood.com
