Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[H. S. Teoh]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:04:52AM +0200, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 21:24:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >Besides, it's impractical to use compose key sequences to write
> >large amounts of text in some given language; a method of
> >temporarily switching to a different layout is necessary.
> 
> I thought the topic was typing the occasional Unicode character to
> use as an operator in D programs?

Well, D *does* support non-English identifiers, y'know... for example:

	void main(string[] args) {
		int число = 1;
		foreach (и; 0..100)
			число += и;
		writeln(число);
	}

Of course, whether that's a good practice is a different story. :)

But for operators, you still need enough compose key sequences to cover
all of the Unicode operators -- and there are a LOT of them -- which I
don't think is currently done anywhere. You'd have to make your own
compose key maps to do it.


T

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