Why the hell doesn't foreach decode strings

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:27:46 -0400, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 10/24/2011 7:02 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:20:41 -0400, Walter Bright  
>> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/22/2011 2:21 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>>>> Which operations do you believe would be less efficient?
>>>
>>> All of the ones that don't require decoding, such as searching, would  
>>> be less
>>> efficient if decoding was done.
>>
>> Searching that does not do decoding is fundamentally incorrect. That  
>> is, if you
>> want to find a substring in a string, you cannot just compare chars.
>
> Sure you can. A Unicode character is a string, a Unicode string is a  
> string of those strings. So, searching for a Unicode character is  
> searching for a substring.

What if the source character is encoded differently than the search  
string?  This is basic unicode stuff.  See my example with fiancé.

-Steve