Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Manu" <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> One of the first, and best, decisions I made for D was it would be 
>> Unicode
>> front to back.
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>
> Indeed, excellent decision!
> So when we define operators for u × v and a · b, or maybe n²? ;)

When these have keys on standard keyboards.