Why is string.front dchar?

[Jakob Ovrum]

On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 01:17:19 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> 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.)

No, I believe you are thinking of graphemes.