I understand that Base64 uses Ranges, and since String is seen and used as unicode by Ranges (please tell me if I am wrong).

I am guessing, for this reason, auto btoa = std.base64.Base64.encode("Blah"); doesn't work. You need to be casting the string to ubyte[] to make it work which doesn't look and feel nice at all.

Can/shall we add another alias into the module for encode method, so it accepts a string, and casts it to ubyte[] by itself?

On Wednesday, 1 June 2016 at 09:31:51 UTC, tcak wrote:
> I understand that Base64 uses Ranges, and since String is seen and used as unicode by Ranges (please tell me if I am wrong).
>
> I am guessing, for this reason, auto btoa = std.base64.Base64.encode("Blah"); doesn't work. You need to be casting the string to ubyte[] to make it work which doesn't look and feel nice at all.
>
> Can/shall we add another alias into the module for encode method, so it accepts a string, and casts it to ubyte[] by itself?

This should do the trick:

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html#.representation