You're right... but I still wish.
Haven't got the time to do more than that with it at the moment...
and wouldn't expect anyone else to either.  Just sharing my thoughts.

TZ

"Norbert Nemec" <Norbert@Nemec-online.de> wrote in message news:d4b35f$2k7k$2@digitaldaemon.com...
Nobody hinders you to hack an editor to do a translation on the fly.
Alternatively, you could also write a preprocessor that takes unicode
and spits out regular ASCII D source. Anyhow: the standard
representation should definitely stay in ASCII.


TechnoZeus schrieb:
> Ha!  There's a perfect example of what I mean...
>
> To those who are reading this in "plain text" I apologize for the markup codes, but it looks like they are "necessary" at this point.
>
> Well, I'll try this again, in HTML and see if they go through... ???????????????????
>
> Not sure what went through, but I see what came back on this end.  All
> of the characters I was talking about have been converted to question marks!
>
> Oh, and in case they do...  "?" is the one I was talking about as an alternative for the "is" operator.  Would be nice to allow it... but there is a question of whether or not it would get used, and a question of whether or not it may be lost when the source core is saved or sent or in some other way transfered from it's original location.
>
> TZ
>
> "TechnoZeus" <TechnoZeus@PeoplePC.com <mailto:TechnoZeus@PeoplePC.com>>
> wrote in message news:d3od0n$b7o$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>  > It's too bad most keyboards don't have keys for symbols like ?, ?, ?,
> ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, and ?.  It's interesting
> that Japanese can be typed in Hiragana, Katakana, or Romanji characters,
> and yet we can't find a way to include such useful characters as these
> in a programming language.  No insult to anyone intended here, by the
> way.  No one person is responsable for this situation.  It just is.
>  >
>  > Wouldn't it be nice though, if "?" could be used as an alternative to
> the "is" operator for identity, at the very least?  But... I for one can
> say that I've tried to type such things in Notepad and it simply
> wouldn't let me, no matter how I went about it... and Notepad is still
> what I am typing most of my D source code in.
>  >
>  > TZ
>  >
>  >
>  >