On 25 May 2013 11:58, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/24/2013 3:42 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: > >> I tried writing language-agnostic text-processing programs in C/C++ >> before the widespread adoption of Unicode. >> > > One of the first, and best, decisions I made for D was it would be Unicode > front to back. > Indeed, excellent decision! So when we define operators for u × v and a · b, or maybe n²? ;) At the time, Unicode was poorly supported by operating systems and lots of > software, and I encountered some initial resistance to it. But I believed > Unicode was the inevitable future. > > Code pages, Shift-JIS, EBCDIC, etc., should all be terminated with > prejudice. >
