Selectable encodings

[Oskar Linde]

Mike Capp skrev:
> In article <e12j34$2gi2$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, John C says...
>> version (utf8) alias mlchar char;
> 
> Apologies for going off at a tangent to your question, but I've never quite
> understood what D thinks it's doing here. If char[] is an array of characters,
> then it can't be a UTF-8 string, because UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding. So
> is char[] an array of characters from some other charset (e.g. the subset of
> UTF-8 representable in one byte), or is it an array of bytes encoding a UTF-8
> string (in which case I suspect quite a lot of string-handling code is badly
> broken)?

It is the latter. But I don't think much of the string handling code is 
broken because of that.

/Oskar