> how do you handle an umlaut in zig? "Handle" how? If you're just shuffling bytes around, you don't need to worry about it. If you need to iterate through by

> how do you handle an umlaut in zig? "Handle" how? If you're just shuffling bytes around, you don't need to worry about it. If you need to iterate through by codepoints, there's stdlib Utf8View module, though I understand this aspect of the standard library is set to change before 1.0. The fact that multi-byte codepoints don't have bytes that could be ASCII gets you decently far for common things like splitting a string at a newline, or otherwise matching against a char. edit: actually, were you talking about the code in the post? Looking at it now, I see it's buggy in this regard, if you're wanting a ? to match ü. I think basically what you'd do is in the branch corresponding to the ? you could use the stdlibs's utf8ByteSequenceLength function to skip the text ahead that many bytes, while advancing the pattern by just the one byte.