Re: use «chevrons» to represent string literal

Thu Jan 16 21:38:50 UTC 2025

On 17/01/2025 10:34 AM, barbosso wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 January 2025 at 21:26:29 UTC, Richard (Rikki) Andrew 
> Cattermole wrote:
>> They are not part of ASCII, they are part of an "extended ASCII" ISO/ 
>> IEC 8859-1 aka Latin-1.
>>
>> They do not fit in a single byte.
>>
>> C2 AB
>>
>> https://symbl.cc/en/00AB/
>>
>> For us to introduce a new string syntax, it would need to do something 
>> that the existing ones cannot reasonably do.
> 
> The extended ASCII has 8 bits, 256 distinguish characters

D files are encoded as UTF-8.

Therefore it does not support extended ASCII.