String Type Usage. String vs DString vs WString

[Patrick Schluter]

On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 04:27:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Monday, January 15, 2018 03:14:02 Tony via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Monday, 15 January 2018 at 02:09:25 UTC, rikki cattermole
>>
>> wrote:
>> > Unicode has three main variants, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32. 
>> > The size of a code point is 1, 2 or 4 bytes.
>>
>> I think to be technically correct, 1 (UTF-8), 2 (UTF-16) or 4
>> (UTF-32) bytes are referred to as "code units" and the size of 
>> a
>> code point varies in UTF-8 and UTF-16.
>
> Yes, for UTF-8, a code unit is 8 bits, and there can be up to 6 
> of them (IIRC) in a code point.

Nooooooooooo!!! Only 4 maximum for Unicode. Beyond that it's 
obsolete crap that is not Unicode since version 2 of Unicode.