Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

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On Sunday, 23 September 2018 at 20:49:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> There's a reason why dmd doesn't have international error 
> messages. My experience with it is that international users 
> don't want it. They prefer the english messages.

I'm a native German speaker.
As for my part, I agree on this, indeed.


There are several reasons for this:
- Usually such translations are terrible, simply put.
- Uncontinuous translations [0]
- Non-idiomatic sentences that still sound like English somehow.
- Translations of tech terms [1]
- Non-idiomatic translations of tech terms [2]

However, well done translations might be quite nice at the 
beginning when learning programming. Back then, when I coding C# 
in VS 2010 I was happy with the German error messages. I'm not 
sure whether it was just delusion but I think it got worse with 
some later version, though.




[0] There's nothing worse than every single sentence being 
treated on its own during the translation process. At least 
that's what you'd often think when you face a longer error 
message. Usually you're confronted with non-linked and 
kindergarten-like sentences that don't seem to be meant to be put 
together. Often you'd think there were several translators. 
Favorite problem with this: 2 different terms for the same thing 
in two sentences.

[1] e.g. "integer type" -> "ganzzahliger Datentyp"
This just sounds weird. Anyone using "int" in their code knows 
what it means anyway...
Nevertheless, there are some common translations that are fine 
(primarily because they're common), e.g. "error" -> "Fehler"

[2] e.g. "assertion" -> "Assertionsfehler"
This particular one can be found in Windows 10 and is not even 
proper German.