...code does include some marginal awareness of UTF8 and UTF16 encoding but the file stream...

...this for encoding for now:

enum Format {
UTF8 = 0,
UTF16 = 1,
UTF16LE = 1,
UTF16BE = 2...

...Stream {
#     enum Encoding{ UTF8, UTF16, UTF32 }
#     Encoding encoding;
#     this() { encoding = Encoding.UTF8; }
#     Stream get(char...

...want to be able to read non-UTF8 strings.  I haven't put it up...

...str)); // utf8 to local code page
or
 foo = BarW(std.utf.toUTF16z(str)); // utf8 to...

...can be abstract with descendants being in UTF8/16/32/ some other representations
- allow some...

...you actually need to be directly manipulating UTF8/16 fragments? (Hint: in a unicode-based...

...call uft.8to16 if the string is utf8/ansi not wchar[] etc.

as the current...

It doesn't although they are called UTF-8 and UTF-16 they are just...

...s, inout uint idx)
that take a UTF8 char[] and an index and return the...