First steps

[Kristian Kilpi]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:58:57 +0200, Gabor Deak Jahn <djg at tramontana.co.hu>  
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> excuse me for dropping in with a simple question like this
> but I searched the FAQ and any available resources and I
> was unable to find an answer.
>
> I read the D description and found the language rather
> interesting and sane, I just wish Stroustrup had the same
> expertise when he designed C++ in the first place. I'm
> currently using many languages, C, C++, C#, Pascal and I'm
> contemplating to write my next major project in D to see
> how it works out in real life.
>
> My first test programs compile and run all right (Windows
> XP), except for one silly error. As soon as I start using
> comments (either //, /* or /+), I start getting 'invalid
> UTF-8 sequence' errors. The source file is plain ASCII but
> it doesn't make any difference if I change it to UTF-
> anything. The compiler version is v0.172, I've freshly
> downloaded it a couple of weeks ago from here.
>
> PS: the forum doesn't work with Opera. With an out-of-
> mainstream (yet) language like D, shouldn't we strive to
> serve out-of-mainstream (yet) browsers as well? :-)))
>
> Thanks,
>   Gabor

All the comments must also contain plain ASCII only. For example,  
scandinavian letters (ä, ö, å) cannot be used inside comments.

Btw, I am using Opera, and at the first glance the forums seems to work. I  
did have a couple of problems to connect to the newsgroup server though.  
It took a quite long time before the newgroups available on the server  
were listed (so that I could subscribe to them). But maybe it was just  
common lag.