Invalid conversion from utf8 string when it is in variable

[John Chapman]

On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 11:17:02 UTC, rsk82 wrote:
> The effect here is that the message text is correct in greek 
> letters but message title is all empty boxes, sometimes with 
> other texts there are chinese chars.
>
> string msg= "ένα μήνυμα";
> MessageBoxW(null, "ένα μήνυμα", cast(wchar*)msg.toStringz, 
> MB_ICONERROR);
>
> http://s9.postimage.org/66e84i80r/msgbox.png

You're casting UTF-8 (char*) to UTF-16 (wchar*). Instead, use the 
conversions in std.utf - ie, msg.toUTF16z().