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

[jicman via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 06:44:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> 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

Thanks, but can't use Tango.  Historically, Tango (originally 
Mango) and Phobos did not play well, and by the time Tango came 
along, my project was done totally using Phobos, so I have to 
continue to use Phobos.

josé