Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Sean Kelly]

On Jun 5, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 6/5/13 6:11 PM, Timothee Cour wrote:
>> currently std.demangle.demangle doesn't work with unicode (see example below)
>> 
>> If we decide to keep allowing unicode symbols (as opposed to just unicode strings/comments), we must
>> address this issue. Will supporting this negatively impact performance (of both compile time and
>> runtime) ?
>> 
>> Likewise, will linkers + other tools (gdb etc) be happy with unicode in mangled names?
>> 
>> ----
>> structA{
>> intz;
>> voidfoo(intx){}
>> voidさいごの果実(intx){}
>> voidªå(intx){}
>> }
>> mangledName!(A.さいごの果実).demangle.writeln;=>_D4util13demangle_funs1A18さいごの果実MFiZv
>> ----
> 
> Filed in bugzilla?

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10393
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/524