Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Manu]

On 25 May 2013 11:58, Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 5/24/2013 3:42 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
>> I tried writing language-agnostic text-processing programs in C/C++
>> before the widespread adoption of Unicode.
>>
>
> One of the first, and best, decisions I made for D was it would be Unicode
> front to back.
>

Indeed, excellent decision!
So when we define operators for u × v and a · b, or maybe n²? ;)


At the time, Unicode was poorly supported by operating systems and lots of
> software, and I encountered some initial resistance to it. But I believed
> Unicode was the inevitable future.
>
> Code pages, Shift-JIS, EBCDIC, etc., should all be terminated with
> prejudice.
>
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