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tialaramex on Oct 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introduction to Dlang [video]

> D's string is not text by itself because it is an array of UTF-8 code units.

Bytes. It's an array of bytes. D's char type isn't actually restricted to UTF-8 code units, char x = '\xFF'; works just fine even though that's not UTF-8.

acehreli on Oct 12, 2022 [–]

I see what you mean but array of bytes is something else in D: byte[].

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