Wide characters support in D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Ruslan Nikolaev" <nruslan_devel at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.127.1275974825.24349.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
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> True. But even simple string handling is faster for UTF-16. The time 
> required to read 2 bytes from UTF-16 string is the same 1 byte from UTF-8. 
> Generally, we have to read one code point after another (not more than 
> this) since data guaranteed to be aligned by 2 byte boundary for wchar and 
> 1 byte for char. Not to mention that converting 2 code points takes less 
> time in UTF-16. And why not use this opportunity if system already 
> natively support this?
>

Why do you say that UTF-16 is faster than UTF-8?

>In general, it is a good practice since 1 byte char text is not necessary 
>UTF-8 anyway and can be ANSI as well.
>

That's what the BOM is for.