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On Sunday, 29 January 2017 at 02:17:12 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
> Also my ctfe engine still requires utf8 support, for 
> string-foreach.
> Currently there are methods for that in druntime, I hope to 
> simply call them at ctfe, rather then re-implement them. If 
> someone volunteers I can provide help to make them ctfeable, 
> however at the moment my free mental bandwidth is too low to 
> deal with utf details.
>
> This approach will require the druntime-source containing the 
> utf8 methods to be present and visible at every compiler run 
> that uses string foreach.
>
> If you consider this an issue please state why.

1:

I think it's good to avoid this if possible, though I'm not 
fiercely opposed

2:

I wrote this for mach:

https://github.com/pineapplemachine/mach.d/tree/master/mach/text/utf

If you want to borrow code or if I can provide an implementation 
meeting different requirements then I am at your disposal.

3:

Can you clarify what string-foreach refers to? Surely not 
`foreach(ch; some_string){}`, which enumerates code units and not 
code points?