"bstring"

[Justin Spahr-Summers]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:50:36 -0700, Ali Çehreli <acehreli at yahoo.com> 
wrote:
> 
> Justin Spahr-Summers wrote:
> 
>  > 'string' to me represents a contiguous run of valid
>  > *characters* (i.e., the data has meaning and representation in and of
>  > itself)... not strictly enforced by D, of course, but that's how the
>  > type is used.
> 
> If by "character" you mean "code unit", yes.
> 
> string characters are UTF-8 code units in D and have meanings by 
> themselves only if they are one-byte UTF-8 sequences.
> 
> Ali

Sorry, yes. I'm not very familiar with Unicode terminology, but I do 
know that strings don't always contain valid Unicode sequences, and 
that's what I meant.