On Aug 22, 2012, at 5:07 PM, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote:
> Jonathan M Davis: > >> and the fact that using ASCII really shouldn't be encouraged, > > For generic text I agree with you, using UTF-8 is safer and better. > But there is plenty of scientific/technical text-encoded data that is in > ASCII, and for both practical and performance reasons in D I want to process > it as a sequence of chars (or a sequence of ubytes, as you say). So for some > kinds of data that encouragement is a waste of your time. I'm clearly missing something. ASCII and UTF-8 are compatible. What's stopping you from just processing these as if they were UTF-8 strings?
