std.format with wstring and dstring

[Dom DiSc]

On Monday, 8 September 2025 at 08:49:53 UTC, IchorDev wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 September 2025 at 12:29:08 UTC, Robert Schadek 
> wrote:
>> Meta: Removing wstring and dstring support from std.format for 
>> phobos 3 should be looked at IMHO.
>
> As I understand it, Phobos 3 will basically not support UTF-16 
> or UTF-32 anymore except for encoding conversion. As someone 
> who appreciates UTF-32's elegant simplicity, I find this 
> saddening.

This "simplicity" is gone in the moment you start working with 
graphemes. A "unit" on the screen may consist of multiple 
characters no matter which encoding you use - so why not stay 
with a single one (UTF-8)?