[phobos] UTF-8 string slicing

[Sean Kelly]

The few times I used it were for trimming a buffer to some length for display purposes. 

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On Aug 19, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> 
>> I need to do this from time to time, but I generally just do something like:
>> 
>> buf[0 .. buf.toUCSindex(n)]
>> 
>> A shorthand might be nice though, I suppose.
>> 
>>  
> 
> Somewhat surprisingly, such a function is rarely needed (I've never needed it in working with UTF8)
> and so I don't think a special syntax for it is justified.
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