Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Mr. Anonymous]

On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 22:20:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh 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.
>
>
> T

http://code.google.com/p/trileri/source/browse/trunk/tr/yazi.d