Sorting char arrays

[bearophile]

Magnus Lie Hetland:

> The following fails, which I guess is a bug?
>
> import std.algorithm;
> void main() {
> 	char[] a = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
> 	sort(a);
> }

It's not a bug, char is meant to be a UTF-8. Two workarounds:

import std.algorithm;
void main() {
	dchar[] a1 = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
	sort(a1);
	char[] a2 = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
	sort(cast(ubyte[])a2);
}

Bye,
bearophile