Adding Unicode operators to D

[Yigal Chripun]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Yigal Chripun <yigal100 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> "Bill Baxter" wrote
>>>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:37 AM, ore-sama <spam at here.lot> wrote:
>>>>> Bill Baxter Wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> (like I haven't been able to figure out how to get the
>>>>>> DOS console in Windows to display UTF-8)
>>>>> Console is a legacy technology (you even still call it "DOS"), why expect
>>>>> features from it?
>>>> So tell me what the alternative is?  I had trouble with running D
>>>> tools from a Cygwin shell.  Can't remember if I tried MSYS or not.
>>> Any text-based program uses the same Windows console (unless it's a GUI
>>> application, and it uses controls to create a text box, etc).  Including
>>> cygwin shell.
>>>
>>> To say it's a legacy technology is like saying Linux is a legacy technology
>>> because it's command line based.  It's a false experience promoted by
>>> Microsoft to try and spread FUD about OSes that mainly support command line
>>> tools, like Linux.  But command line tools are extremely useful and
>>> powerful, much easier to develop, and IMO easier to use.  For instance, if
>>> you want to find all files that contain a certain text, grep -R text / and
>>> you're done.  On windows it's 'click the start menu, select search, wait for
>>> the search window to pop up, click on the dog, etc'.  Freaking annoying if
>>> you ask me ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>> Anyone using a shell for Windows that works and supports UTF-8 properly?
>>> I would guess it should work properly, most everything in windows supports
>>> unicode.  Perhaps you have some configuration setting not set properly?  I'd
>>> suggest searching msdn.
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>>
>>>
> 
>> PowerShell is GUI based as well.
> 
> After downloading it and giving it a try, I find this claim somewhat
> suspect.  What makes you say it's GUI based?  It has the exact same
> decorations and goofy menu options as a regular non-GUI Windows
> console.  If it were really a GUI, I doubt they would go through the
> extra programming effort required to make it look *exactly* like a
> console app.
> 
> --bb

I've just checked (it's been a long time since I used it) and you're
correct. I don't know Why I remembered it as being GUI based, maybe the
blue color threw me off..sorry for the confusion. but I'm sure that
there are 3rd party GUI based shells for Windows.