TDPL reaches Thermopylae level

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Bill Baxter, el 27 de octubre a las 13:12 me escribiste:
>>> They are?
>>>
>>> ...Then what is the point of wstring, dstring?
>> They are all just different representations of Unicode.
>>
>> string, which is unicode in UTF-8, is good because it's the least
>> wasteful for mostly ASCII text.  And has a nice ASCII backwards
>> compatibility story.
>>
>> dstring, which is unicode in UTF-32, is good because you have one
>> element = one character.  So it's good for doing substring and other
>> text manipulations.
>>
>> wstring, which is UTF-16, is good because it lets you call Windows
>> Unicode functions.
>>
>> Here's Daniel Keep's nice explanation:
>> http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dtqh79k_1rbxfmb
> 
> And here is a nice artible about Unicode and encodings:
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
> 

Damn guys, with these good explanations, nobody's going to use the one 
in TDPL!

Andrei