The D Programming Language Vision Document

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 6 July 2022 at 21:30:44 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> And I think there is still pretty much value in handling UTF-16 
> strings because that's what many other languages use. With the 
> current vision, Phobos V2 won't handle UTF16 in place. We'll 
> have to convert it to UTF8 before manipulation, which is 
> probably not optimal.

Oh, there is no doubt that handling UTF16 should be possible, but 
it can be done just as well, if not better, as a support library.

But it is very much undesirable to have more than a single string 
format for library authors to deal with.