How do I get a wstring or dstring with a code point of 0xA0 in it ? That’s a type of space, is it? I keep getting a message from the LDC compiler something like "Outside Unicode code space" in my unittests when this is the first character in a wstring. I’ve tried all sorts of escape sequences but I must simply be misunderstanding the docs. I could always copy-paste a real live one into a double quoted string and be done with it, I suppose.

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:15:47PM +0000, Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> How do I get a wstring or dstring with a code point of 0xA0 in it ?
> That’s a type of space, is it? I keep getting a message from the LDC
> compiler something like "Outside Unicode code space" in my unittests
> when this is the first character in a wstring. I’ve tried all sorts of
> escape sequences but I must simply be misunderstanding the docs. I
> could always copy-paste a real live one into a double quoted string
> and be done with it, I suppose.

D strings are assumed to be encoded in UTF-8 / UTF-16 / UTF-32. So if you wrote something like `\xA0` in your string will likely generate an invalid encoding.  Try instead `\u00A0`.


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On Thursday, 27 July 2023 at 22:15:47 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
> How do I get a wstring or dstring with a code point of 0xA0 in it ?

note that you don't need wstring and dstring to express all unicode strings.

On Thursday, 27 July 2023 at 22:35:00 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 July 2023 at 22:15:47 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
>> How do I get a wstring or dstring with a code point of 0xA0 in it ?
>
> note that you don't need wstring and dstring to express all unicode strings.

I realised that I was probably generating UTF8 and only one byte, so I switched to \u00A0, I think. Must have got that wrong too because I was still getting the error message. I’ll try it again carefully.