What's left for 1.0?

[Walter Bright]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> Also, I think this whole discussion is highlighting a misunderstanding
> on how strings work in D.  Some people seem to be looking at D's string
> support and thinking "Oh, it looks just like a scripting language, so
> <X> should work the same; what the?!  It doesn't?!  Must be broken!"
> They don't seem to understand *why* we have char, wchar and dchar.  I
> think it's time we had an article either in a D manual (do we even,
> strictly speaking, HAVE a manual for D?[1]) or somewhere on the website
> so we can say:
> 
>   "No, it's not broken; it's just different.  Go here and all shall
> become clear."

Yes, I think you're right. Once one has a good handle on what UTF-8 is 
(and UTF-16 and UCS-4), it all makes sense. D provides several different 
ways of looking at characters (and strings) and none of them are quite 
like C++ (which essentially has no support for international characters) 
or like scripting languages (which hide all the details, making them 
inefficient).

I've thought more than once about writing an article about it, but got 
distracted by other things.