Oskar Linde wrote:
> It is easy to implement your own character count though:
>
> size_t count(char[] arr) {
> size_t c = 0;
> foreach(dchar c;arr)
> c++;
> return c;
> }
>
> assert("тест".count() == 4);
std.utf.toUCSindex(s, s.length) will also give the character count.