Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 5/26/13 1:45 PM, Joakim wrote:
> What is extraordinary about "UTF-8 is shit?" It is obviously so.

Congratulations, you are literally the only person on the Internet who 
said so: http://goo.gl/TFhUO

On 5/26/13 1:45 PM, Joakim wrote:
> Or it could just be that I'm much smarter than everybody else in this
> thread, ;) I can't rule it out given the often silly responses I've been
> getting.

One odd thing about this thread is it's extremely rare that most 
everybody in this forum raises like one to the same opinion. Usually 
it's like whatever the topic, a debate will ensue between two ad-hoc groups.

It has become clear that people involved in this have gotten too 
frustrated to have a constructive exchange. I suggest we collectively 
drop it. What you may want to do is to use D's modeling abilities to 
define a great string type pursuant to your ideas. If it is as good as 
you believe it could, then it will enjoy use and adoption and everybody 
will be better off.


Andrei