kill the commas! (phobos code cleanup)

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d]

Am Thu, 4 Sep 2014 00:55:47 +0300
schrieb ketmar via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>:

> On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:38:55 +0000
> via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> 
> > That sucks! Now I had to do it myself. (I think you should 
> > upgrade to a decent editor on a decent OS and save me some 
> > unicode-work…;)
> no-no-no-no! utf of any size is boring. i want my strings to be
> indexable without any hidden function calls! ;-)
> 
> i even did "native-encoded strings" patch (n"hello!") and made lexer
> don't complain about bad utf in comments. i love my one-byte locale!

But there lies greatness in the unification of all locales
into just one. All the need for encodings in HTTP that more
often than not were incorrectly declared making browsers guess.
Text files that looked like gibberish because they came from
DOS or were written in another language that you even happen to
speak, but now cannot decypher the byte mess. Or do you
remember the mess that happened to file names with accented
characters if they were sufficiently often copied between file
systems?
I'm all for performance, but different encodings on each
computing platform and language just didn't work in the
globalized world. You are a relic :)

-- 
Marco
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