Re: Invalid conversion from utf8 string when it is in variable

[John Chapman]

On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 11:17:02 UTC, rsk82 wrote:
The effect here is that the message text is correct in greek 
letters but message title is all empty boxes, sometimes with 
other texts there are chinese chars.

string msg= "ένα μήνυμα";
MessageBoxW(null, "ένα μήνυμα", cast(wchar*)msg.toStringz, 
MB_ICONERROR);

http://s9.postimage.org/66e84i80r/msgbox.png

You're casting UTF-8 (char*) to UTF-16 (wchar*). Instead, use the 
conversions in std.utf - ie, msg.toUTF16z().