MBCS character code support

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 16-05-2012 06:18, Katayama Hirofumi MZ wrote:
> 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 long superseded all these magical encodings used all over the world.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.

D does not support Windows versions older than Windows 2000.

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