Why is ElementType!(char[]) == dchar?

[Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 11:46:14 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 11:35:24 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>> On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 11:29:18 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 9 July 2016 at 11:24:01 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>>>> Seems pretty silly to me...
>>>
>>> due to universally beloved autodecoding.
>>
>> Hmmm... I dont really know the history of autodecoding, why 
>> was that supposed to be a good idea?
>
> Hmm, well I fixed my problem that originally prompted me to ask 
> this by using ubyte instead of char. Still kinda curious on the 
> whole autodecoding thing and why it's even a thing.

Another solution is to use ElementEncodingType, which is like 
ElementType but with a special hack for arrays of characters, to 
return the actual type and not the autodecoded one.