String Prefix Predicate

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On Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 17:33:41 UTC, Justin Whear wrote:
> std.algorithm.startsWith?  Should auto-decode, so it'll do a

What about 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/2043

Auto-decoding should be avoided when possible.

I guess something like

whole.byDchar().startsWith(part.byDchar())

is preferred right?

If so is this what we will live with until Phobos has been 
upgraded to using pull 2043 in a few years?