use «chevrons» to represent string literal

barbosso barb at your.io
Thu Jan 16 21:43:21 UTC 2025


On Thursday, 16 January 2025 at 21:38:50 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> 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.

Do you understand what you wrote?


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