On 3/8/2014 8:25 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Recently Vladimir Panteleev has ported the DMD Source Guide from the old
> wiki to the new one[1], and updated it with up-to-date information. I've
> added a "DMD Hacking Tips & Tricks" section[2], which should help people
> new to the codebase to start hacking on DMD-FE. I've only added a few
> tips that I know of.
>

Wow, that page is hugely improved since last time I looked (quite a while ago, TBH). Cheers to all who contributed!

One thing I'm still unclear on though (maybe someone in-the-know could add this info?): Last I looked at DMD's semantic code, there was a lot of stuff about "deferred" semantics. What's all that stuff about? It sounds like some sort of inverse of what the Wiki describes about handling forward references, but I don't know anything about it.

On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 02:14 +0000, Brad Anderson wrote: […]
> You can change the file encoding but the default is codepage 1252 for me (I assume it changes based on your locale but I don't know that for certain). It's definitely not UTF-16 encoded. I don't recall ever seeing Windows VS source code encoded with anything other than 1252/8859-1 or (rarely) UTF-8.

I would have thought UTF-8 was the only sensible encoding of Unicode for general purposes.

Windows is the reason for UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE because Microsoft implemented things differently to the rest of the planet, and what the standard said. So the standard got retrofitted.

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On 08.03.2014 23:20, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 3/8/14, Timon Gehr <timon.gehr@gmx.ch> wrote:
>> How many actual D source files are not UTF-8?
>
> No idea. Maybe some Windows tools use UTF-16, although I can't think
> of any. VS uses UTF-8 right?
>

Visual D sets the default encoding for D files to UTF8, otherwise they are Codepage 1252 "Western European" on my system, e.g. for C/C++ files.