UTF-8 Unicode operators vs digraphs

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On Tuesday, 11 August 2026 at 17:57:32 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> 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

I haven't mentioned C++ at all.

> 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

UTF-8 works with every text editor that came out in the last 25 
years.

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

Pretty sure the top 10 monospace fonts all support that.
D does not support the digraphs or trigraphs from C in D code. It 
is already putting accuracy over total keyboard layout 
compatibility. And who says the old digraphs need to go 
immediately?