Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Manu]

On 31 May 2013 03:08, Entry <no at no.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 16:05:13 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 15:48:12 UTC, Entry wrote:
>>
>>> I'm glad you agree, though I believe that I never said anything about D
>>> 'choosing' which human languages are compatible with it. I just expressed
>>> my belief that should people choose to construct something, be it a ship or
>>> a computer program, the usage of a single language will greatly enhance
>>> their progress (ever heard the story of the Tower of Babel? wink wink).
>>> Sorry if my previous comment seemed hostile, that was not my intention.
>>>
>>
>> If the programmers who are going to be working on that code don't
>> understand the "Single Language", then what use is it?
>>
>
> Then there's no helping it. Though I wonder what kind of a programmer
> doesn't understand English enough to at least read the code and comments.
>

A child, or a student.
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