On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:14:36 +0000 AsmMan via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
> I didn't know about this encoding. Why should you use KOI8-R > instead of UTF-8? what does it conver that UTF-8 didn't? I used > to think UTF-8 does conver all the alphabets around, japonese > people does use it, isn't? koi8: one symbol == one byte. utf8: one symbol == ... ah, who knows? only Shadow knows... koi8-u is enough for me. i can use three languages with it and still have my strings easily indexable. it's ok to use utf-8 when i need to interchange some data with "outer world" -- i.e. send or receive some text over network. but i can't see why i must use utf-8 for my local data. i know what i'm doing yet... yet i can't have koi8 string in my D code without ugly "\x" escapes. i can't have koi8 text in my comments. Great Lord, it's just comments, it's not even DDoc, why can't i write anything i want there?!
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