Beginner not getting "string"

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Hello Nick,

> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message
> news:i5e88k$2p0t$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 
>> wchar is a UTF-16 code point.
>> 
> Please tell me that's a typo. This isn't the era of UCS-2.
> 

Even if choosing to use UTF-16 is a bad idea (and I'm in no position to say 
it is)being able to read/write it to interact with things that already use 
it is a good idea.

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