Relaxing the definition of isSomeString and isNarrowString

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Mon Aug 25 01:07:57 PDT 2014


On Sunday, 24 August 2014 at 18:43:36 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 24-Aug-2014 22:19, Andrew Godfrey пишет:
>> The OP and the question of auto-decoding share the same root 
>> problem:
>> Even though D does a lot better with UTF than other languages 
>> I've used,
>> it still confuses characters with code points somewhat. 
>> "Element type is
>> some character" is an example from OP. So clarify for me:
>> If a programmer makes an array of either 'char' or 'wchar', 
>> does that
>> always, unambiguously, mean a UTF8 or UTF16 code point?
>
> Yes, pedantically - UTF-8 and UTF-16 code _units_. dchar is a 
> codepoint.

Right, not just pedantically, but crucially - didn't read it 
correctly.


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