How to reverse char[]?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:32:32AM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
[...]
> Except that char[] is _not_ an array of characters. It's an array of
> code units. There is a _big_ difference. Not even dchar[] is an array
> of characters.  It's both an array of code units and an array of code
> points, but not even that quite gets you characters (though at this
> point, Phobos pretty much treats a code point as if it were a
> character). If you want a character, you need a grapheme (which could
> be multiple code points). _That_ is where the problem comes in.
> 
> You can definitely do array operations on strings. In fact, it can be
> very desirable to do so if you want to process strings efficiently.
> But if you treat them like you would ubyte[], you're in for a heap of
> trouble thanks to how unicode works.
[...]

Except that the point of my code was to fix byte-order so that they can
be correctly interpreted. I suppose I really should be using ubyte[] for
that instead, and perhaps use a union to translate it to char[] when I
call decode().


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