Why is std.regex slow, well here is one reason!

[Max Samukha]

On Thursday, 23 February 2023 at 23:11:56 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:

>
> Unicode is a brilliant idea, but its doom comes from the 
> execrable decision to apply semantic meaning to glyphs.

Unicode did not start that. For example, all Cyrillic encodings 
encode Latin А, K, H, etc. differently than the similarly looking 
Cyrillic counterparts. Whether that decision was execrable is 
highly debatable.