D's Auto Decoding and You

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 6/2/16 5:21 PM, jmh530 wrote:
> On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 14:06:37 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>>
>> If you think there should be any more information included in the
>> article, please let me know so I can add it.
>
> I was a little confused by something in the main autodecoding thread, so
> I read your article again. Unfortunately, I don't think my confusion is
> resolved. I was trying one of your examples (full code I used below).
> You claim it works, but I keep getting assertion failures. I'm just
> running it with rdmd on Windows 7.
>
>
> import std.algorithm : canFind;
>
> void main()
> {
>     string s = "cassé";
>
>     assert(s.canFind!(x => x == 'é'));
> }

If that é above is an e followed by a combining character, then you 
will get the error. This is because autodecoding does not auto normalize 
as well -- the code points have to match exactly.

-Steve