On Friday, 19 October 2012 at 13:19:09 UTC, Don Clugston wrote: >> >> We can still have both (assuming the code points are valid...): >> string foo = "\ua1\ub2\uc3"; // no .dup > > That doesn't compile. > Error: escape hex sequence has 2 hex digits instead of 4 Come on, "assuming the code points are valid". It says so 4 lines above!