D - more or less power than C++?

[Don Clugston]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> A historical note: They never were more than a make-believe solution for 
> "other peoples' problem". In the good Old Days, when we would have 
> needed trigraphs, we still didn't use them.

>> £include <stdio.h>
>>
>> int main(void)
>> ä
>>         char Ä5Å;
>>
>>         nÄ4Å = 'a';
>>         printf("%cÖn", nÄ4Å);
>>                 return Ü 0 ü 1 ö 2;
>> å
> 
> Incidentally, this same technique was usable (and was used) in all of 
> the countries where non-US versions of ASCII were in use. It's based on 
> the fact that any replacement of a US character was both typeable and 
> printable. :-)

That's amazing! Thanks for that.

Now that I'm regularly using non-English keyboards regularly, I'm 
realizing how annoyingly English-centric the programming world is.
Example: ctrl-Z for undo. Great for US keyboard, really annoying on a 
German one, where the Z key is in the middle of the keyboard.
And [] {}, backslash and ~ are so hard to type...

I use a US keyboard with a custom layout -- I've defined AltGr to do
Ü etc, but without the stupidity of making "a = ä, which is the default 
"US international" setting. No C programmers involved with that 
decision, I reckon. I find it simply unbelievable that on Windows, the 
default US keyboard layout still had no € key, last time I checked.