What's left for 1.0?

[BCS]

Nahon wrote:
> Marcin Kuszczak wrote:
> 
>> I think that one thing which is missed in phobos right now is string 
>> class
>> which encapsulates utf-8/utf-16/utf-32 handling and issues connected with
>> utf-8 strings e.g.:
>>
>>         char[] foo = "hög";
>>         assert(foo.length == 3); // Sorry UTF-8, this is == 4
>>         assert(foo[1] == 'ö');   // Not a chance!
> 
> 
> My Win version doesn't even start to parse the source file if an ASCII 
>  >127 character is present even if it is in a comment!
> 
> If I create an a.d (ö is #f6):
> void main()
>  {
>   //hög
>  }
> 
> And then run:
> $ dmd a
> 
> The result is:
> a.d(3): invalid UTF-8 sequence
> 
> I think that would be nice to somehow tell the parser which format is 
> the source file. It could be a command line parameter
> -encoding:ANSI|UTF-8|etc.
> or the first line of the file should contain that like
> //!Encoding: ANSI
> 
> Regards,
> Nahon


http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html
look for BOM

However, I don't known how to put in a BOM.