Rename std.string.toStringz?

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 17.06.2011 15:21, schrieb Kagamin:
> Daniel Gibson Wrote:
> 
>>   char* to!c_str(string s) (or immutable(char)* or something)
>> i.e. the related toImpl looks like
>>   char* toImpl(c_str, string)(string s)
>> => 3 types! (char*, c_str, string)
> 
> btw, if we're talking about C api, the return type must not be char*, because c string character encoding is not utf-8, but char* implies utf-8.

Of course we're talking about C api, that's the whole point of toStringz
What about C functions that *do* deal with UTF8?
And C functions that don't care about encoding?
I don't think you usually use different types used in C for ASCII, 8bit
encodings and UTF8..