"Chris Nicholson-Sauls" <ibisbase...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:hcctuf$140...@digitalmars.com... > > Granted LTR is common enough to be expectable and acceptable. To be > perfectly honest, I don't believe I have *ever* even used wchar/wstring. > Char/string gosh yes; dchar/dstring quite a bit as well, where I need the > simplicity; but I've yet to feel much need for the "weirdo" middle child > of UTF. >
Given that just about anything outside of D (at least as far as I've seen) that attempts to use unicode does so with UTF-16 (or just uses UCS-2 and pretends that's UTF-16...), wchar and wstring are great for dealing with that. For instance, my Goldie engine for GOLD currently uses wchar in a number of places because GOLD's .cfg format stores text in...well, presumably UTF-16 (I haven't tested to see if it's really UCS-2). But yea, as long as you're not dealing with anything that's already in UTF-16 or that expects it, then it does seem to be somewhat questionable.