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

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 07:48:34 UTC, Chris wrote:
>
> 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
> }
>

So Unicode in D works EXACTLY as expected, yet people in this 
thread act as if the house is on fire.

D dying because of auto-decoding? Who can possibly think that in 
its right mind?

The worst part of this forum is that suddenly everyone, by virtue 
of posting in a newsgroup, is an annointed language design expert.

Let me break that to you: core developer are language experts. 
The rest of us are users, that yes it doesn't make us necessarily 
qualified to design a language.