First steps

[Hasan Aljudy]

Kristian Kilpi wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:50:51 +0200, JohnC <johnch_atms at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> "Kristian Kilpi" <kjkilpi at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:op.tjfefqr4usumhd at mist...
>>> 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.
>>
>> D accepts UTF source files - http://www.digitalmars.com/d/lex.html
>>
>> Set your editor's encoding as UTF8 to preserve non-ASCII characters. Even
>> humble old Notepad can do this.
>>
>>
> 
> Doh! I'm so stick with ASCII, that UTF scares me! :) But yeah, that's 
> good to know.

UTF sorta scared me when I didn't know anything about it.
I wasn't stuck with ASCII, I couldn't have been, becuase I write and 
read Arabic text all the time. I was stuck with Code Page 1256.
but nah, code pages are crap. UTF rocks!