D1 to be discontinued on December 31, 2012

[Walter Bright]

On 12/12/2011 10:26 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> PS. The reddit discussion about Python3's UTF support is interesting.
> Sounds like D got it right, and Python 3 failed.

I had the huge advantage of having done two UTF implementations previously (a 
Java compiler and a Javascript compiler). Interestingly, C++11 has adopted 
fundamentally the same design as D.


"Python also uses the environment variables (which as you know where garbage) to 
decide on the default encoding of files."

That can never end well :-)