Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 15:49:14 UTC, thedeemon wrote:
> Out of curiosity I looked into "D Cookbook" to check if it 
> contains your particular case but the only mention of Base64 
> there is about encoding some data into Base64, not the other 
> way around.

Hmm, yeah, I didn't want to have any section in there that was 
just "call this one function" but indeed the worry about utf 
encoding can magnify the problem. I did write about this a bit in 
chapter one on strings, but probably still not quite what you'd 
want...