why a part of D community do not want go to D2 ?

[Walter Bright]

spir wrote:
> In my views, there is a missing level of abstraction in common UString processing libs and types. How to count the "â"s in a text? How to find one? Above, indexOf fails because my editor uses a precombined code, while the source (here literal) uses another form.
> To be able to produce meaningful results, and to use simple routines like index, find, count..., the way we used to with single-length character sets, there should be a grouping phase on top of decoding; we would then process arrays of "stacks" representing characters, not of codes. ITo search, it's also necessary to have all characters normalised form, so that both "â" would match: another phase.
> Unicode provides algorithms for those phases in constructing string representations -- but everyone seems to ignore the issues... s[0..1] would then return the first character, not the first code of the "stack" representing the first character.



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