DLang Spec rewrite (?)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, May 27, 2013 21:29:41 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/27/13 6:48 PM, Borden wrote:
> > Oh, and another thing: XHTML adopts the XML practice of only defining
> > the lt, gt and amp entities and no others (like nbsp, mdash, accented,
> > or non-Latin characters).
> > 
> > Since Unicode is, by and large, universal, I've read that the
> > recommended practice for including characters not on a standard US
> > keyboard is to copy them from a character map and save the file in a
> > Unicode encoding. I intend to follow this guidance in writing the
> > (x)html.ddoc template.
> > 
> > As such, should I keep the existing 'entity' macros or use the Unicode
> > characters in the DLang spec source files? I imagine that Andrei will
> > immediately comment that .tex files are supposed to be in ASCII.
> > Suggestions?
> 
> The LaTeX configuration won't use your ddoc template. Knock yourself out.

Yes, but he was wondering if he could change the .dd files to use Unicode 
characters directly instead of macros, which _would_ affect the LaTeX 
configuration.

- Jonathan M Davis