[Issue 24357] New: String spec needs updating

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24357

          Issue ID: 24357
           Summary: String spec needs updating
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: dlang.org
          Assignee: nobody at puremagic.com
          Reporter: nick at geany.org

This section needs a general clean up, fixing typos and more links:
https://dlang.org/spec/arrays.html#strings

> char[] strings are in UTF-8 format. wchar[] strings are in UTF-16 format. dchar[] strings are in UTF-32 format. 

The above is a bit confusing as strings always have immutable elements.

> Since strings, however, are not 0 terminated in D

This should be moved to the zero-terminated literals section.

char* p = &str[3]; // pointer to 4th element
char* p = str;     // pointer to 1st element

The second declaration no longer compiles.

PR incoming.

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