On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote: >>> >>> I'd agree with the delegate idea if we established that UTF-8 is favored >>> compared to all other formats. >> >> D seems to favor UTF8 -- it is the default type for string literals. I >> don't think I've ever used dchar, and I usually only use wchar to talk to >> Win32 functions when required. >> >> The question I'd ask is -- how common is it where the versions other than >> char[] would be more convenient? > > I don't know. I think Asian-language users might give a salient answer.
This isn't authoritative, but I don't think utf-16 is commonly used in Japan (except for calling Windows APIs). If you look at Mozilla the default Japanese encoding listed is Shift-JIS. A lot of Japanese email still gets sent as ISO-2022-JP. Otherwise utf-8 I think. A quick look at www.asahi.com shows they're using EUC-JP. nicovideo.jp is using utf-8. I seem to recall that my Japanese Visual Studio even saved files in Utf-8, or at least could be set to use utf-8. In short, I think utf-8 is closer to being a widely accepted standard for documents over there than utf-16 is. --bb
