import std.stdio;

void main()
{
   string s = "Die Walküre";
   writefln(s);
}

Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?

Steve Teale wrote:
> import std.stdio;
> 
> void main()
> {
>    string s = "Die Walküre";
>    writefln(s);
> }
> 
> Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?

Did you save the file as UTF-8?

Steve Teale wrote:
> import std.stdio;
> 
> void main()
> {
>    string s = "Die Walküre";
>    writefln(s);
> }
> 
> Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki
> page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?

I pasted your code above and compiled and ran it with no problem.
I'm on linux: Fedora 10, and dmd v2.026.

Ary Borenszweig schrieb:
>> Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?
> 
> Did you save the file as UTF-8?

Yeah, you must save the file as UTF-8.

Ary Borenszweig Wrote:

> Steve Teale wrote:
> > import std.stdio;
> > 
> > void main()
> > {
> >    string s = "Die Walküre";
> >    writefln(s);
> > }
> > 
> > Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?
> 
> Did you save the file as UTF-8?

Was not offered the opportunity. I pasted the text from the web page into Windows Notepad, and saved it - this seemed to me to be as generic as possible given the facilities I have available. What editor will do the trick? Also, if I'm using the Windows version of the compiler, shouldn't it be smart enough to convert the Windows character set to UTF-8?

Steve Teale wrote:
> Ary Borenszweig Wrote:
> 
>> Steve Teale wrote:
>>> import std.stdio;
>>>
>>> void main()
>>> {
>>>    string s = "Die Walküre";
>>>    writefln(s);
>>> }
>>>
>>> Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?
>> Did you save the file as UTF-8?
> 
> Was not offered the opportunity. I pasted the text from the web page into Windows Notepad, and saved it - this seemed to me to be as generic as possible given the facilities I have available. What editor will do the trick? Also, if I'm using the Windows version of the compiler, shouldn't it be smart enough to convert the Windows character set to UTF-8?

Notepad will do the trick, but you must save it as UTF-8. In the Save As dialog select UTF-8 in Encoding.

Steve Teale wrote:
> Also, if I'm using the Windows version of
> the compiler, shouldn't it be smart enough to convert the Windows
> character set to UTF-8?

The huge problem with code pages is, given a file with some text in it, there is NO CLUE what code page the file's text encoding is in. Just because dmd is running on Windows is not any reason at all that the character set of the file must be the Windows character set.

I ran into this problem all the time with C code.

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:48:56 -0400, Steve Teale <steve.teale@britseyeview.com> wrote:

>import std.stdio;
>
>void main()
>{
>   string s = "Die Walküre";
>   writefln(s);
>}
>
>Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?

Works for me, you should save the file as UTF-8 and set your codepage
to 65001.
C:\> dmd test.d

C:\> test
Die Walk+?re

C:\>chcp 65001
Active code page: 65001

C:\>test
Die Walküre

Gide

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:34:49 +0300, Gide Nwawudu <gide@btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:48:56 -0400, Steve Teale
> <steve.teale@britseyeview.com> wrote:
>
>> import std.stdio;
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>   string s = "Die Walküre";
>>   writefln(s);
>> }
>>
>> Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?
>
> Works for me, you should save the file as UTF-8 and set your codepage
> to 65001.
> C:\> dmd test.d
>
> C:\> test
> Die Walk+?re
>
> C:\>chcp 65001
> Active code page: 65001
>
> C:\>test
> Die Walküre
>
> Gide

I believe Phobos should do it manually.

Gide Nwawudu Wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:48:56 -0400, Steve Teale <steve.teale@britseyeview.com> wrote:
> 
> >import std.stdio;
> >
> >void main()
> >{
> >   string s = "Die Walküre";
> >   writefln(s);
> >}
> >
> >Gives error - invalid utf-8 sequence. I pasted the text from a Wiki page that claims to be utf-8. What's happening?
> 
> Works for me, you should save the file as UTF-8 and set your codepage
> to 65001.
> C:\> dmd test.d
> 
> C:\> test
> Die Walk+?re
> 
> C:\>chcp 65001
> Active code page: 65001
> 
> C:\>test
> Die Walküre
> 
> Gide

Yup, that does it. I'd missed the encoding option in notepad. What were you running the program in - in a cmd window I see graphics characters.