Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[aliak]

On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 07:48:34 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 21:36:16 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>>
>> Autodecode - I've suffered under that, too. The solution was 
>> fairly simple. Append .byCodeUnit to strings that would 
>> otherwise autodecode. Annoying, but hardly a showstopper.
>
> import std.array : array;
> import std.stdio : writefln;
> import std.uni : byCodePoint, byGrapheme;
> import std.utf : byCodeUnit;
>
> void main() {
>
>   string first = "á";
>
>   writefln("%d", first.length);  // prints 2
>
>   auto firstCU = "á".byCodeUnit; // type is `ByCodeUnitImpl` (!)
>
>   writefln("%d", firstCU.length);  // prints 2
>
>   auto firstGr = "á".byGrapheme.array;  // type is `Grapheme[]`
>
>   writefln("%d", firstGr.length);  // prints 1
>
>   auto firstCP = "á".byCodePoint.array; // type is `dchar[]`
>
>   writefln("%d", firstCP.length);  // prints 1
>
>   dstring second = "á";
>
>   writefln("%d", second.length);  // prints 1 (That was easy!)
>
>   // DMD64 D Compiler v2.081.2
> }
>
> Welcome to my world!
>
> [snip]

The dstring is only ok because the 2 code units fit in a dchar 
right? But all the other ones are as expected right?

Seriously... why is it not graphemes by default for correctness 
whyyyyyyy!