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digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 18813] New: fromStringz should work with char, wchar and dchar

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18813

          Issue ID: 18813
           Summary: fromStringz should work with char, wchar and dchar
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: phobos
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: giles.bathgate+dlang gmail.com

The std.string.fromStringz function currently only works with zero-terminated
strings of char.

The following PR adds additional support for wchar and dchar:

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6438

The existing char only API is left for backwards compatibility.

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Apr 30 2018