On 5/29/2016 5:56 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
As far as Unicode is concerned, it is a standard for representing *written* text, not spoken language, so concepts like phonemes aren't even relevant in the first place. Let's not get derailed from the present discussion by confusing the two.
As far as D is concerned, we are not going to invent our own concepts around text that is different from Unicode or redefine Unicode terms. Unicode is what it is, and D is going to work with it.