[Issue 19518] std.range.front() returns a dchar when applied to char[]

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19518

Basile B. <b2.temp at gmx.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Basile B. <b2.temp at gmx.com> ---
This is not a bug. D standard library auto decoded input ranged of char and
wchar so their ElementEncodingType is dchar. The reasoning behind is this is
that imagine an array such as

   ['é','µ','ç'] (which is somewhat equivalent to the string "éµç".dup btw)

You'd expect 3 elements, not 6. So if you want to get rid of decoding, cast
your array as ubyte[] (or use std.range.byCodeUnit)

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