The D Programming Language Vision Document

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Sunday, 3 July 2022 at 18:33:29 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>
> On 04/07/2022 6:10 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> People who are willing to use 4 bytes per code point are 
>> probably using third party C-libraries that have their own 
>> representation, so you have to convert anyway?
>
> If you use Unicode and follow their recommendations, you are 
> going to be using dstrings at some point.

I hardly ever use anything outside UTF-8, and if I do then I use 
a well tested unicode library as it has to be correct and up to 
date to be useful. The utility of going beyond UTF-8 seems to be 
limited:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32#Analysis