Re: D's confusing strings (was Re: D on hackernews)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 9/21/11 1:20 PM, Christophe Travert wrote:
Dealing with utfencoded strings is less efficient, but there is a number
of algorithms that can be optimized for utfencoded strings, like copying
or finding an ascii char in a string. Unfortunately, there is no
practical way to do this with the current range API.

I'd love to hear more about that. The standard library does optimize 
certain algorithms for UTF strings.

Andrei