Reading unicode string with readf ("%s")

[Ivan Kazmenko via Digitalmars-d-learn]

Hi!

The following code does not correctly handle Unicode strings.
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import std.stdio;
void main () {
        string s;
        readf ("%s", &s);
        write (s);
}
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Example input ("Test." in cyrillic):
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Тест.
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(hex: D0 A2 D0 B5 D1 81 D1 82 2E 0D 0A)

Example output:
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Тест.
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(hex: C3 90 C2 A2 C3 90 C2 B5 C3 91 C2 81 C3 91 C2 82 2E 0D 0A)

Here, the input bytes are handled separately: D0 -> C3 90, A2 -> 
C2 A2, etc.

On the bright side, reading the file with readln works properly.

Is this an expected shortcoming of "%s"-reading a string?
Could it be made to work somehow?
Is it worth a bug report?

Ivan Kazmenko.