On Monday, 10 March 2014 at 11:04:43 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I may have missed it, but I don't see where it says anything about validation or immediate sanitation of invalid sequences. It's mostly "UTF-16 sucks and so does Windows" (not that I'm necessarily disagreeing with it). (ot: Kinda wish they hadn't used such a hard to read font...)
I should have highlighted it, their recommendations for proper encoding handling on Windows are in section 5 ("How to do text on Windows").
One of them is "std::strings and char*, anywhere in the program, are considered UTF-8 (if not said otherwise)."
I finds it interesting that D tends to enforce this lesson learned with mixed-encodings codebases.
