Ruslan Nikolaev wrote:
Note: I posted this already on runtime D list,
Although D is designed to be fairly agnostic about character types, in practice
I recommend the following:
1. Use the string type for strings, it's char[] on D1 and immutable(char)[] on
D2.
2. Use dchar's to hold individual characters.
The problem with wchar's is that everyone forgets about surrogate pairs. Most
UTF-16 programs in the wild, including nearly all Java programs, are broken with
regard to surrogate pairs. The problem with dchar's is strings of them consume
memory at a prodigious rate.
