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

[Dukc]

On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 14:17:28 UTC, aliak wrote:
> // D
> auto a = "á";
> auto b = "á";
> auto c = "\u200B";
> auto x = a ~ c ~ a;
> auto y = b ~ c ~ b;
>
> writeln(a.length); // 2 wtf
> writeln(b.length); // 3 wtf
> writeln(x.length); // 7 wtf
> writeln(y.length); // 9 wtf
>
> writeln(a == b); // false wtf
> writeln("ááááááá".canFind("á")); // false wtf
>

I had to copy-paste that because I wondered how the last two can 
be false. They are because á is encoded differently. if you 
replace all occurences of it with a grapheme that fits to one 
code point, the results are:

2
2
7
7
true
true