On 5/25/2013 12:33 AM, Joakim wrote:
At what cost? Most programmers completely punt on unicode, because they just
don't want to deal with the complexity. Perhaps you can deal with it and don't
mind the performance loss, but I suspect you're in the minority.
I think you stand alone in your desire to return to code pages. I have years of
experience with code pages and the unfixable misery they produce. This has
disappeared with Unicode. I find your arguments unpersuasive when stacked
against my experience. And yes, I have made a living writing high performance
code that deals with characters, and you are quite off base with claims that
UTF-8 has inevitable bad performance - though there is inefficient code in
Phobos for it, to be sure.
My grandfather wrote a book that consists of mixed German, French, and Latin
words, using special characters unique to those languages. Another failing of
code pages is it fails miserably at any such mixed language text. Unicode
handles it with aplomb.
I can't even write an email to Rainer Schütze in English under your scheme.
Code pages simply are no longer practical nor acceptable for a global community.
D is never going to convert to a code page system, and even if it did, there's
no way D will ever convince the world to abandon Unicode, and so D would be as
useless as EBCDIC.
I'm afraid your quest is quixotic.
