First steps

[JohnC]

"Kristian Kilpi" <kjkilpi at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:op.tjfefqr4usumhd at mist...
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:58:57 +0200, Gabor Deak Jahn <djg at tramontana.co.hu> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> excuse me for dropping in with a simple question like this
>> but I searched the FAQ and any available resources and I
>> was unable to find an answer.
>>
>> I read the D description and found the language rather
>> interesting and sane, I just wish Stroustrup had the same
>> expertise when he designed C++ in the first place. I'm
>> currently using many languages, C, C++, C#, Pascal and I'm
>> contemplating to write my next major project in D to see
>> how it works out in real life.
>>
>> My first test programs compile and run all right (Windows
>> XP), except for one silly error. As soon as I start using
>> comments (either //, /* or /+), I start getting 'invalid
>> UTF-8 sequence' errors. The source file is plain ASCII but
>> it doesn't make any difference if I change it to UTF-
>> anything. The compiler version is v0.172, I've freshly
>> downloaded it a couple of weeks ago from here.
>>
>> PS: the forum doesn't work with Opera. With an out-of-
>> mainstream (yet) language like D, shouldn't we strive to
>> serve out-of-mainstream (yet) browsers as well? :-)))
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   Gabor
>
> All the comments must also contain plain ASCII only. For example, 
> scandinavian letters (ä, ö, å) cannot be used inside comments.
>
> Btw, I am using Opera, and at the first glance the forums seems to work. I 
> did have a couple of problems to connect to the newsgroup server though. 
> It took a quite long time before the newgroups available on the server 
> were listed (so that I could subscribe to them). But maybe it was just 
> common lag.

D accepts UTF source files - http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html

Set your editor's encoding as UTF8 to preserve non-ASCII characters. Even 
humble old Notepad can do this.