Re: Major performance problem with std.array.front()

[TC]

Probably because your browser is normalizing the unicode string 
when you
copy-n-paste Vladimir's message? See below:

Just for curiosity I tried it with C# to see how it is handled 
there and it works like this:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace Test
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            var s = "cassé";
            Debug.Assert(s.IndexOf('é') < 0);
            s = s.Normalize();
            Debug.Assert(s.IndexOf('é') == 4);
        }
    }
}

So it's neither work by default there and Normalize has to be used