On Tuesday, 15 September 2020 at 01:49:13 UTC, James Blachly
wrote:
I wish to write a function including ∂x and ∂y (these are
trivial to type with appropriate keyboard shortcuts - alt+d on
Mac), but without a unicode byte order mark at the beginning of
the file, the lexer rejects the tokens.
It is not apparently easy to insert such marks (AFAICT no
common tool does this specifically), while other languages work
fine (i.e., accept unicode in their source) without it.
Is there a downside to at least presuming UTF-8?
According to the spec [1] this should Just Work. I'd recommend
filing a bug.
[1] https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html#source_text
