D1: UTF8 char[] casting to wchar[] array cast misalignment ERROR

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 17/06/14 04:27, jicman wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> I have a bunch of files plain ASCII, UTF8 and UTF16 with and without BOM
> (Byte Order Mark).  I had, "I thought", a nice way of figuring out what
> type of encoding the file was (ASCII, UTF8 or UTF16) when the BOM was
> missing, by reading the content and applying the std.utf.validate
> function to the char[] or, wchar[] string.  The problem is that lately,
> I am hitting into a wall with the "array cast misalignment" when casting
> wchar[].  ie.
>
> auto text = cast(string) file.read();
> wchar[] temp = cast(wchar[]) text;

How about casting to "wchar[]" directory, instead of going through "string".

> What would be the correct process to find out a text file encoding?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  This is the code that I have
> right now...

I don't know if you use Tango [1], but it has a module [2] to help with 
this sort of things.

[1] http://dsource.org/projects/tango
[2] http://dsource.org/projects/tango/docs/stable/tango.io.UnicodeFile.html

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg