"Andrej Mitrovic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I've had a similar requirement some time ago. I've had to copy and
> modify the phobos function std.utf.decode for a custom text editor
> because the function throws when it finds an invalid code point. This
> is way too slow for my needs. I'm actually displaying invalid code
> points with special marks (just like Scintilla), so I need decoding to
> work as fast as possible.
>
> The new function simply replaces throwing exceptions with flagging a
> boolean.
I think I may end up doing something like that :/
I was hoping to be able to do something vaguely sensible like this:
string newStr;
foreach(dchar dc; str)
{
if(isValidDchar(dc))
newStr ~= dc;
else
newStr ~= 'X';
}
str = newStr;
But that just blows up in my face.
