Reading and writing Unicode files

[jicman]

downs Wrote:

> downs wrote:
> > jicman wrote:
> >> Greetings.
> >>
> >> Sorry guys, please be patient with me.  I am having a hard time understanding this Unicode, ANSI, UTF* ideas.  I know how to get an UTF8 File and turn it into ANSI. and I know how to take a ANSI file and turn it into an UTF file.  But, now I have a Unicode file and I need to change the content and create a new Unicode file with the changes in the content.  I have read all kind of places, and I found mtext, from Chris Miller's site, by reading,
> >>
> >> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/TextInD
> >>
> >> Anyway, what I need is to read an Unicode file, search the strings inside, make changes to the file and write the changes back to an Unicode file.
> >>
> >> Any help would be greatly appreciate.
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >>
> >> josé
> > 
> > Wow, you're in luck!
> > 
> > D is all unicode.
> > 
> > Just do import std.file; auto text = cast(string) filename.read(); do your changes; filename.write(cast(void[]) text);
> > 
> > and you're done.
> 
> PS: You may need to do detection for UTF-16. In that case, just cast to a wstring instead, then (optionally) use std.utf.toUTF8.

shouldn't auto take care of that?