On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 18:11:22 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 5/27/16 10:15 AM, Chris wrote: >> It has happened to me that characters like "é" return length >> == 2 > > Would normalization make length 1? -- Andrei No, I've tried it. I think dchar[] returns one or you check by grapheme.