It's easy to state this, but - please - don't get sarcastical! I'm obviously (as I've learned) speaking about UTF-8 "char"s as they are NOT implemented right now in D; so I'm criticizing that D, as a language which emphasizes on "UTF-8 characters", isn't taking "the last step", like e.g. Python does (and no, I'm not a Python fan, nor do I consider D a bad language).