Solution for Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption(tm)

[Bane]

> And here's an even crazier idea: Some sort of well-thought-out UCF format 
> (Unicode Code Format) that is like plain-text, but includes a standard 
> metadata header (typically hidden while editing) that can help sort all this 
> stuff out, and maybe other things as well. Obviously it would require 
> special support from compilers and editors, but if it was well-designed 
> (including discouragement of proprietary extensions - don't want a repeat of 
> HTML) then I think it would be worth trying to push.

Sounds complicated and error prone. I still have problems with notepad and his habit of killing utf-8 files and inserting bunch of ???? where all the nice chars were. Makes me want to kill somebody.