Let's schedule WinAPI ASCII functions for deprecation!

[Stewart Gordon]

On 23/05/2012 15:16, Kagamin wrote:
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> Well, you can't fix C because C explicitly ignores string encoding and thoughtlessly
> passes strings around without any transcoding. Though, D bindings suggest that C functions
> accept utf-8 strings

A lot of C functions do.  Indeed, this is one of the considerations made in the design of 
UTF-8.

> which leads to assumption that those functions will act properly on
> utf-8 strings. I'd say that's a bug in bindings: C strings are specified to be in C
> encoding,

What is "C encoding"?

> not utf-8 encoding. I think, conversion from D string to C string should require
> at least a cast.

Several people have dealt with this by using byte or ubyte as D's equivalent of the C char 
type.

Stewart.