char array weirdness

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 3/28/16 7:06 PM, Anon wrote:
> The compiler doesn't know that, and it isn't true in general. You could
> have, for example, U+3042 in your char[]. That would be encoded as three
> chars. It wouldn't make sense (or be correct) for val.front to yield
> '\xe3' (the first byte of U+3042 in UTF-8).

I just want to interject to say that the compiler understands that 
char[] is an array of char code units just fine. It's Phobos that has a 
strange interpretation of it.

-Steve