TDPL: Foreach over Unicode string

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote:

> Sean Kelly Wrote:
> >
> > I think it's Windows integration that's the problem, on OSX I get:
> >
> > [H][a][l][l][?][?][,][ ][V][?][?][r][l][d][!]
> > [H][a][l][l][å][,][ ][V][ä][r][l][d][!]
> >
> > which is essentially correct.  The only difference between this and doing
> the same thing in C and using printf() in place of write() is that both
> lines display correctly in C.  I think printf() must be detecting partial
> UTF-8 characters and buffering until the complete chunk has arrived.
>  Interestingly, the C output can't even be broken by badly timed calls to
> fflush(), so the buffering is happening at a fairly high level.  I'd be
> interested in seeing the same thing in write() at some point.
>
> Ah, write() already works that way.  It was the brackets that were screwing
> things up.
>

You are right about printf(), I'm getting the correct output with this code:

import std.stdio, std.stream;

void main() {
    string str = "Hall\u00E5, V\u00E4rld!";
    foreach (dchar c; str) {
        printf("%c", c);
    }
    writeln();
}

Hallå, Värld!

Should I file this as a Windows bug for DMD?
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