Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On Tue, 28 May 2013 00:18:31 +0200, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>  
wrote:

> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:04:52AM +0200, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 21:24:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >Besides, it's impractical to use compose key sequences to write
>> >large amounts of text in some given language; a method of
>> >temporarily switching to a different layout is necessary.
>>
>> I thought the topic was typing the occasional Unicode character to
>> use as an operator in D programs?
>
> Well, D *does* support non-English identifiers, y'know... for example:
>
> 	void main(string[] args) {
> 		int число = 1;
> 		foreach (и; 0..100)
> 			число += и;
> 		writeln(число);
> 	}
>
> Of course, whether that's a good practice is a different story. :)
>
> But for operators, you still need enough compose key sequences to cover
> all of the Unicode operators -- and there are a LOT of them -- which I
> don't think is currently done anywhere. You'd have to make your own
> compose key maps to do it.


The Fortress programming language has some 900 or so operators:

https://java.net/projects/projectfortress/sources/sources/content/Specification/fortress.1.0.pdf?rev=5558

Appendix C, and

https://java.net/projects/projectfortress/sources/sources/content/Documentation/Specification/fortress.pdf?rev=5558

chapter 14


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Simen