UTF-8 Unicode operators vs digraphs

[monkyyy]

On Tuesday, 11 August 2026 at 17:34:00 UTC, Dlighted wrote:
> The site told me I should make a new thread rather than 
> replying to a years old one. Forgive me if I made a completely 
> useless offtopic thread that wasted everyone's time.
> I thought about Unicode operators multiple times over the years 
> and it's been mentioned on the D forum more than once:
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/nujfnoneihykkkfzeeaj@forum.dlang.org
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/ahxrzlvznpdutwvvmlfv@forum.dlang.org
>
> [...]

D started life as a c compiler 30 years ago and maintains 
compatibility with c in many bad ways; mentioning modern c++ 
versions probably doesn't help you convince walter, mentioning a 
formatter wont help you convince adr

D doesnt have a standard text editor so I bet for the foreseeable 
future walter will want to maintain ascii just assuming that some 
15 year old code only he runs will be mildly inconvenienced by 
him checking if it even does support it

Possibly good arguments would be if they are part of the top 10 
monospaced fonts and if gnu-c supports it; id check that.