On 5/31/2016 1:20 PM, Marco Leise wrote:
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I agree. I dealt the madness of code pages, Shift-JIS, EBCDIC, locales, etc., in the pre-Unicode days. Despite its problems, Unicode (and UTF-8) is a major improvement, and I mean major.
16 years ago, I bet that Unicode was the future, and events have shown that to be correct.
But I didn't know which encoding would win - UTF-8, UTF-16, or UCS-2, so D bet on all three. If I had a do-over, I'd just support UTF-8. UTF-16 is useful pretty much only as a transitional encoding to talk with Windows APIs. Nobody uses UCS-2 (it consumes far too much memory).
