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Re:Ali Cehreli Introduces Dlang at Northeastern U by tialaramex on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @08:52PM (#33171312)
> D's string is not text by itself because it is an array of UTF-8 code units.

Bytes. It's an array of bytes. D's char type isn't actually restricted to UTF-8 code units, char x = '\xFF'; works just fine even though that's not UTF-8.

Re:Ali Cehreli Introduces Dlang at Northeastern U by acehreli on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:19PM (#33171529)
I see what you mean but array of bytes is something else in D: byte[].