Wide characters support in D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Rainer Deyke" <rainerd at eldwood.com> wrote in message 
news:humes8$s8$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 6/8/2010 13:57, bearophile wrote:
>> I hope we'll soon have computers with 200+ GB of RAM where using
>> strings that use less than 32-bit chars is in most cases a premature
>> optimization (like today is often a silly optimization to use arrays
>> of 16-bit ints instead of 32-bit or 64-bit ints. Only special
>> situations found with the profiler can justify the use of arrays of
>> shorts in a low level language).
>
> Off-topic, but I don't need a profiler to tell me that my 1024x1024x1024
> arrays should use shorts instead of ints.  And even when 200GB becomes
> common, I'd still rather not waste that memory by using twice as much
> space as I have to just because I can.
>
>

I think he was just musing that it would be nice to be able to ignore 
multiple encodings and multiple-code-units, and get back to something much 
closer to the blissful simplicity of ASCII. On that particular point, I 
concur ;)