On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:27:46 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 10/24/2011 7:02 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:20:41 -0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com>
wrote:
On 10/22/2011 2:21 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
Which operations do you believe would be less efficient?
All of the ones that don't require decoding, such as searching, would
be less
efficient if decoding was done.
Searching that does not do decoding is fundamentally incorrect. That
is, if you
want to find a substring in a string, you cannot just compare chars.
Sure you can. A Unicode character is a string, a Unicode string is a
string of those strings. So, searching for a Unicode character is
searching for a substring.
What if the source character is encoded differently than the search
string? This is basic unicode stuff. See my example with fiancé.
-Steve
