Ascii matters

[bearophile]

Jonathan M Davis:

> But given that you can use ubyte[] just fine

The data I am processing is not generic octets, like 8 bits 
digitized by some old A/D converter, they are chars, and I expect 
to see strings when I print them :-)


> and the fact that using ASCII really shouldn't be encouraged,

For generic text I agree with you, using UTF-8 is safer and 
better.
But there is plenty of scientific/technical text-encoded data 
that is in ASCII, and for both practical and performance reasons 
in D I want to process it as a sequence of chars (or a sequence 
of ubytes, as you say). So for some kinds of data that 
encouragement is a waste of your time.

Bye,
bearophile