Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

Neia Neutuladh neia at ikeran.org
Sat Sep 22 05:57:34 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 22 September 2018 at 04:54:59 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> To wit, Windows linker error with Unicode symbol:
>
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/2850#issuecomment-422968161

That's a good argument for sticking to ASCII for name mangling.

> I'm torn. I completely agree with Adam and others that people 
> should be able to use any language they want. But the Unicode 
> spec is such a tire fire that I'm leery of extending support 
> for it.

The compiler doesn't have to do much with Unicode processing, 
fortunately.


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