Why ElementType!(char[3]) == dchar instead of char?

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 07:40:24PM +0300, drug via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
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> I'm just trying to automatically convert D types to hdf5 types so I
> guess char[..] isn't obligatory some form of UTF-8 encoded text. Or I
> should treat it so?

In D, char[]/wchar[]/dchar[] are intended to be UTF. If you're dealing
with strings encoded with other character sets, you should use ubyte[]
(or ushort[], etc.) instead.


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