List of Phobos functions that allocate memory?

[Marco Leise]

Am Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:18:41 +0400
schrieb Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com>:

> 09-Feb-2014 09:35, Marco Leise пишет:
> > Thats neither an improvement over calling "validate" nor does
> > that deal with distinguishing between invalid UTF and
> 
> Means text is broken but wasn't ever read...
> >\uFFFD
> > in the input.
> ...means text was broken sometime before.
> 
> Hardly makes any difference to the most applications.
> Normal text doesn't contain \uFFFD.

Of course it does. It is a valid symbol and a lot of websites
describing the "Specials" Unicode block make use of it, like
the one on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specials_(Unicode_block)

With your definition, pulling such a document from the web and
parsing it in D would mean playing on broken strings.

> >> [...]
> >> Every single text editor out there seems to disagree with you: they do
> >> show you partially substituted text, not a dialog box "My bad, it's
> >> broken UTF-8, I'm giving up!".

> > gedit does in fact throw an error message at you
> > saying "My bad, it's broken UTF-8, I'm giving up!".

> I know and it's piece of junk :)
> Seriously it doesn't even has regular expressions for search and replace!

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/no-true-scotsman :p

-- 
Marco