Characters in D

[Eugene]

On Saturday, 2 November 2019 at 15:54:02 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 November 2019 at 15:44:49 UTC, Eugene wrote:
>> "Variable of type char can only hold letters that are in the 
>> ASCII table". (section 15.4 Character literals)
>> So why there is executed next code?
>
> The individual char can only hold those, but a group of chars 
> can hold anything.
>
>> char[] cyrillics = "привет".dup;
>
> this works because the "string" has multi-char groupings
>
>> char[] cyrillics = ['п', 'р', 'и', 'в', 'е', 'т']; //not
>
> and this doesn't because you are specifying individual items 
> there so it can't just spread them across multiple bytes

Um. It is not obvious at all. What's mean spread across multiple 
bytes?