On Sunday, 25 November 2018 at 21:23:31 UTC, Vladimirs Nordholm 
wrote:
> Is there a proper way to convert a string with multibyte 
> characters into a dstring?
void main() {
     import std.conv : to;
     import std.stdio : writeln;
	string a = "abc😃123";
     auto b = to!dstring(a);
     assert(b.length == 7);
     writeln(b);
}