To Walter, about char[] initialization by FF

[Walter Bright]

Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> I will ask again:
> 
> What:
> char c = 'a';
> means for you?
> And following in C/C++:
> 
> #pragma(encoding,"KOI-8R")
> 
> char c = '?';
> 
> ?

Pragmas are implementation defined behavior in C and C++, meaning they 
are unportable and rather useless. Not only that, char's themselves are 
implementation defined, and so it is very difficult to write portable 
code that deals with anything other than a-zA-Z0-9 and a few other 
characters.

In D, char[] is a UTF-8 sequence. It's well defined, and therefore 
portable. It supports every human language.