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

[Walter Bright]

On 2/25/2023 6:26 AM, Herbie Melbourne wrote:
> But it is the same Latin 'A'

When it's printed, how do you know the difference?

> My understanding of Unicode has always been that it's merely a mapping of a 
> number, a code point, to a letter, word, symbol, icon, an idea and nothing more. 
> Unicode is agnostic to layout. That's defined in a font.

It started out that way, but it is no more. There are Fraktur fonts embedded in 
Unicode. There are also direction instructions to turn the rendering right-to-left.