Why the hell doesn't foreach decode strings

[Walter Bright]

On 10/21/2011 2:51 AM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> You have a good point here. I would have immediately thrown out the loop AFTER
> profiling.
> What hits me here is that I had an incorrect program with built-in unicode aware
> strings.
> This is counterintuitive to correct unicode handling throughout the std library,
> and even more to the complementary operation of appending any char type to strings.

I understand the issue, but I don't think it's resolvable. It's a lot like the 
signed/unsigned issue. Java got rid of it by simply not having any unsigned types.