On Thu, 29 May 2014 20:40:10 +0100, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
On 5/29/2014 11:25 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Agreed. The simple dream of automatically decoding UTF and staying
"Unicode
correct" is a failure.
Yes. Attempting to hide the fact that strings are UTF-8 is just doomed.
It's like trying to pretend that floating point does not do rounding.
It's far more practical to embrace what it is and deal with it. Yes, D
programmers will need to understand what UTF-8 is. I don't see any way
around that.
And it's the right choice. 4 of the 7 billion people in the world today
are in Asia and by 2100 80% of the worlds population will be in Asia and
Africa.
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/it-is-not-about-political-views-or-ideologies-it-is-blunt-facts-which-are-not-known
R
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