TDPL reaches Thermopylae level

[Lars T. Kyllingstad]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Chris Nicholson-Sauls" <ibisbasenji at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:hcctuf$140a$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Granted LTR is common enough to be expectable and acceptable.  To be 
>> perfectly honest, I don't believe I have *ever* even used wchar/wstring. 
>> Char/string gosh yes; dchar/dstring quite a bit as well, where I need the 
>> simplicity; but I've yet to feel much need for the "weirdo" middle child 
>> of UTF.
>>
> 
> Given that just about anything outside of D (at least as far as I've seen) 
> that attempts to use unicode does so with UTF-16 (or just uses UCS-2 and 
> pretends that's UTF-16...), wchar and wstring are great for dealing with 
> that. For instance, my Goldie engine for GOLD currently uses wchar in a 
> number of places because GOLD's .cfg format stores text in...well, 
> presumably UTF-16 (I haven't tested to see if it's really UCS-2). But yea, 
> as long as you're not dealing with anything that's already in UTF-16 or that 
> expects it, then it does seem to be somewhat questionable. 

I think this says it all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-16#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and_environments

-Lars :)