kill the commas! (phobos code cleanup)

monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Sep 6 04:05:13 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 6 September 2014 at 10:20:23 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 11:48:53 +0200
> Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> You are a relic :)
> sure i am! ;-)
> i'm just waiting for 32-bit bytes. and white bytes are 8-bit, 
> i'll use
> ebcdic^w one of available one-byte encodings. ;-)

That sounds so much better than UTF-32.

> btw: are there fonts that can display all unicode?
> i doubt it (ok, maybe one).

Fonts are encoding agnostic, your point is irrelevant.

>  so we designed the thing that can't really use. ;-)

We can and do: unicode is the only thing that could process text 
that could come from any client on earth, without choking on any 
character. This is all done without the need for font-display, 
which is on the burden of the final client, and their respective 
local needs.


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