Re: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.

[Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 4:45 PM Dukc via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 6 September 2018 at 14:17:28 UTC, aliak wrote:
> > // D
> > auto a = "á";
> > auto b = "á";
> > auto c = "\u200B";
> > auto x = a ~ c ~ a;
> > auto y = b ~ c ~ b;
> >
> > writeln(a.length); // 2 wtf
> > writeln(b.length); // 3 wtf
> > writeln(x.length); // 7 wtf
> > writeln(y.length); // 9 wtf
> >
> > writeln(a == b); // false wtf
> > writeln("ááááááá".canFind("á")); // false wtf
> >
>
> I had to copy-paste that because I wondered how the last two can
> be false. They are because á is encoded differently. if you
> replace all occurences of it with a grapheme that fits to one
> code point, the results are:
>
> 2
> 2
> 7
> 7
> true
> true
>

import std.stdio;
import std.algorithm : canFind;
import std.uni : normalize;

void main()
{
    auto a = "á".normalize;
    auto b = "á".normalize;
    auto c = "\u200B".normalize;
    auto x = a ~ c ~ a;
    auto y = b ~ c ~ b;

    writeln(a.length); // 2
    writeln(b.length); // 2
    writeln(x.length); // 7
    writeln(y.length); // 7

    writeln(a == b); // true
    writeln("ááááááá".canFind("á".normalize)); // true
}