Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On Fri, 31 May 2013 07:57:37 +0200, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 5/30/2013 5:00 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
>> On 31/05/13 05:07, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 5/30/2013 4:24 AM, Manu wrote:
>>>> We don't all know English. Plenty of people don't.
>>>> I've worked a lot with Sony and Nintendo code/libraries, for instance,
>>>> it almost
>>>> always looks like this:
>>>>
>>>> {
>>>>    // E: I like cake.
>>>>    // J: ケーキが好きです。
>>>>    player.eatCake();
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> Clearly someone doesn't speak English in these massive codebases that
>>>> power an
>>>> industry worth 10s of billions.
>>>
>>> Sure, but the code itself is written using ASCII!
>>
>> Because they had no choice.
>
> Not true, D supports Unicode identifiers.

I doubt Sony and Nintendo use D extensively.

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Simen