wstring hex literals

[jmh530]

On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 16:26:46 UTC, Neia Neutuladh 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 at 15:04:08 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> testing_utf16.d(5): Error: Truncated UTF-8 sequence
>> testing_utf16.d(6):        while evaluating: static 
>> assert((_error_) == (wstring
>> ))
>> Failed: ["dmd", "-unittest", "-v", "-o-", "testing_utf16.d", 
>> "-I."]
>
> https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html#hex_strings says:
>
>> The string literals are assembled as UTF-8 char arrays, and 
>> the postfix is applied to convert to wchar or dchar as 
>> necessary as a final step.
>
> This isn't the friendliest thing ever and is contrary to my 
> expectations too. You basically have to encode your string into 
> UTF-8 and then paste the hex of that in.
>
> What should work is escape sequences:
>
>     wstring str = "\u03c0"w;

I see, thanks. I missed that bit on UTF-8. I was a little 
confused.