Adding Unicode operators to D

[Walter Bright]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> I think that's the conclusion I'm coming too as well.  While the use
> of Unicode would have some advantages, there are various technical
> issues with it (like I haven't been able to figure out how to get the
> DOS console in Windows to display UTF-8).  I think those issues can
> all be solved, but it would be a large distraction for the D
> community.  Better to let some big, well-funded, massively popular
> language pioneer in this area.  If some language with a billion
> programmers decided to use Unicode, then you can bet that most of
> these infrastructure problems would start to disappear quickly as
> annoyed programmers start scratching their own itches and as they
> start complaining to the people who write the tools they use.
> 
> Realistically, if I complain to any software vendor now that their
> editor doesn't work well with D because they don't have funky Unicode
> functionality, the response is likely to be "Sounds like a problem
> with D, whatever that is".  If the language were Java or C++, though,
> they would have little choice but to take the complaint seriously,
> regardless of the effort required.

Unfortunately, you might be right in that D is not currently in a 
position to force the issue.