Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"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.
I think this says it all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-16#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and_environments
-Lars :)
