string types: const(char)[] and cstring

[Regan Heath]

Aziz K. Wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 20:41:31 +0200, Regan Heath <regan at netmail.co.nz>  
> wrote:
> > and the result will be a correctly reversed UTF8 string.  Or am I  
> > missing something?
> >
> > Regan Heath
> 
> I think your method doesn't take compound characters into account.
> 
> For example:
> // The accented é can be represented by a single code-point. But let's  
> assume it's a compound character (Ce`a).

Is it a compound character in UTF32?

> writefln( toUTF8(toUTF32("Céa").reverse) ) // would reverse to a`eC
> // This would print áeC

Can you code that test up (using the \U character literal syntax so that the web interface doesn't mangle it) I'd like to play with it.

My statement was based on the assumption that converting UTF8 to UTF32 would result in all the compound characters being converted/represented by a single UTF32 codepoint each and would therefore be reversable.

Regan