MBCS character code support

Katayama Hirofumi MZ katayama.hirofumi.mz at gmail.com
Tue May 15 21:18:53 PDT 2012


On Wednesday, 16 May 2012 at 04:12:04 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen 
wrote:
> I really do not understand why you want to use Shift-JIS. 
> Unicode has long superseded all these magical encodings used 
> all over the world. Why oppose a unified encoding?

On Windows 9x, there is no Unicode support. Instead, native MBCS
encoding exists.

So, if the D Windows program could use UTF-8 only, then the 
programmer
should let the D program convert these strings to Shift_JIS.


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