...id=391

           Summary: .sort and .reverse break utf8 encoding
           Product: D
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC...

...some have called for renaming char to utf8. While that would be technically more correct...

...which is not a good thing for utf8.

Anyway, hope one of those points grabbed...

...came back as a utf8 text file.

The only thing with utf8 is that a...

...like utf8[]

internally.

Now that's an oxymoron, if I ever saw one. (If utf8...

...UTF8.  However, I talk about it in an exclusive manner because if you handle UTF8...

...the following aliases to phobos:
alias ubyte utf8;
alias ushort utf16;
alias uint utf32;

Just...

...with aliases, like declaring say
utf8_t -> char and string -> utf8_t[], but you still...

...reflects what is actually happening -- returning a
utf8 encoded sequence of characters.

Further, the name...

...interpret a string constant as ascii (actually utf8!) or wide (utf16) depending on the variable...