Why is string.front dchar?

[Timon Gehr]

On 01/16/2014 06:56 AM, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>
> Note that the Unicode definition of an unqualified "character" is the
> translation of a code *point*, which is very different from a *glyph*,
> which is what people generally associate the word "character" with.
> Thus, `string` is not an array of characters (i.e. an array where each
> element is a character), but `dstring` can be said to be.

A character can be made of more than one dchar. (There are also more 
exotic examples, eg. IIRC there are cases where three dchars make 
approximately two characters.)