On Sunday, 1 April 2018 at 02:44:32 UTC, Uknown wrote:
If you want to stop auto-decoding, you can use
std.string.representation like this:
import std.string : representation;
auto no_decode = some_string.representation;
Now no_decode wont be auto-decoded, and you can use it in place
of some_string. You can also use std.utf to decode by graphemes
instead.
.representation gives you an const(ubyte)[]
What you typically want is const(char)[], for this you can use
std.utf.byCodeUnit
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_utf.html#byCodeUnit
There's also this good article:
https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/unicode
