Inconsitency

[Dmitry Olshansky]

13-Oct-2013 16:36, nickles пишет:
> Why does <string>.length return the number of bytes and not the
> number of UTF-8 characters, whereas <wstring.>length and
> <dstring>.length return the number of UTF-16 and UTF-32
> characters?
>

???
This is simply wrong. All strings return number of codeunits. And it's 
only UTF-32 where codepoint (~ character) happens to fit into one codeunit.

> Wouldn't it be more consistent to have <string>.length return the
> number of UTF-8 characters as well (instead of having to use
> std.utf.count(<string>)?

It's consistent as is.

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Dmitry Olshansky