use «chevrons» to represent string literal

[barbosso]

On Thursday, 16 January 2025 at 21:45:39 UTC, Richard (Rikki) 
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> On 17/01/2025 10:43 AM, barbosso wrote:
>> 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:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>
> Yes.
>
> Extended ASCII is both a character set and an encoding.
>
> The character set is supported as part of Unicode, the encoding 
> is not supported as we use UTF-8 which conflicts on the 8th bit 
> for the first byte in the code unit.


now I see.
UTF-8 use 1 byte to represent 128 characters ASCII
and 2 bytes for other characters (including «chevrons»).
So, what's the problem?