On Sunday, 7 September 2014 at 08:35:13 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
but there is no need in extra work actually. using ASCII and
English
for program UI will work in any encoding. and any byte with
high bit
set should not be interpreted in any way. it's much easier than
utf,
you see? ;-)
Whatever your motivation is, I'd say utf-8 is a blessing, and I
personally see no reason for supporting any other encoding (not
even utf-16 or utf-32).
utf-8 combined with unique ref-counted immutable short strings is
quite acceptable IMO (you can compare non-equality by address
only). D needs an efficient implementation of it, that's all.
