Fractal

[Leandro Lucarella]

Frits van Bommel, el  9 de junio a las 02:28 me escribiste:
> Fractal wrote:
> >Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:
> >>Because those are the three string encodings D supports, and only
> >>supporting one is a dumb idea.
> >Why? wchar is full compatible with all languages (if it is not please tell me)... also when I have many strings in different types, I need to convert it from 
> >one type to other in each part of the program. Why three when one is suffice?
> 
> IIRC, Chinese characters can't be represented by a single wchar. However, that's not a problem since all three string types support full Unicode.
> 
> >>are all Unicode, just different encodings.  However, even if you can
> >>throw an exception in Spanish, it might not print out correctly on
> >>Windows unless you have your console configured correctly.
> >Oh... I will take a look for that (console configuration)... but the char type dont supports some languages, because it only supports latin... Im wrong? The 
> >Exception on the two APIs uses char[]. I want Inernationalized programs.
> 
> char[] supports any language that wchar[] and dchar[] support. It's just that with char and wchar you need more than one of them for some characters.
> 
> You may want to read http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DanielKeep/TextInD and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode (or one of its many translations if your 
> English is not so good).

I recommend this small but very enlightening article if you know nothing
about Unicode:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

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