The title is a bit wordy, the code demonstrates the problem better:

// Equivalent to क़
constexpr auto arr = std::array<char, 3>{static_cast<char>(0340),
                                         static_cast<char>(0245),
                                         static_cast<char>(0230)};

int main()
{
    constexpr auto a = std::string_view{"क़"};
    constexpr auto b = std::string_view{arr.data(), arr.size()};

    static_assert(a.size() == 3);
    static_assert(b.size() == 3);
    static_assert(a[0] == b[0]);
    static_assert(a[1] == b[1]);
    static_assert(a[2] == b[2]);

    static_assert(a == b);

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

The last static_assert fails on MSVC, but is fine on gcc and clang. At first I thought it might have been a Windows thing not supporting UTF-8 well, but it works fine at runtime:

int main()
{
    constexpr auto a = std::string_view{"क़"};
    constexpr auto b = std::string_view{arr.data(), arr.size()};

    return a == b ? EXIT_SUCCESS : EXIT_FAILURE;
}

Adding /utf-8 to the compiler args makes no difference. It does appear to be a Unicode/UTF-8 issue, because a plain ASCII string works:

// foo
constexpr auto arr = std::array<char, 3>{'f', 'o', 'o'};

int main()
{
    constexpr auto a = std::string_view{"foo"};
    constexpr auto b = std::string_view{arr.data(), arr.size()};

    static_assert(a == b);

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

This feels like a compiler bug, but I’m no language lawyer so it could be that I’m doing something I’m not supposed to – can anybody see what?