Same process to different results?

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 7/1/15 1:44 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> Schizophrenia of Phobos.
>
> Phobos thinks a string is a range of dchar instead of a range of char.
> So what cycle, take, and array all output are dchar ranges and arrays.
>
> When you cast the dchar[] result to a string, (which is a char[]), it
> then treats all the 0's in each dchar element as '\0', printing a blank
> apparently.

This has to be one of the most obvious cases I've ever seen that phobos 
treating string as a range of dchar was the wrong decision. That one 
can't use ranges to make a new string is ridiculous. Just the thought of 
"fixing" this by re-encoding...

-Steve