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Function `std.encoding.safeDecode`

Decodes a single code point. The input does not have to be valid.


						
				dchar safeDecode(S)
				(
				

				  ref S s
				

				);

This function removes one or more code units from the start of a string, and returns the decoded code point which those code units represent.

This function will accept an invalidly encoded string as input. If an invalid sequence is found at the start of the string, this function will remove it, and return the value INVALID_SEQUENCE.

Standards

Unicode 5.0, ASCII, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, WINDOWS-1250, WINDOWS-1251, WINDOWS-1252

Parameters

Name	Description
s	the string whose first code point is to be decoded

Authors

Janice Caron

License

Boost License 1.0.