My first thought was to have 3 versions of each library function, one for each UTF type. It quickly became clear that Phobos would get too large and bulky with this. So, the plan evolved so that Phobos would revolve about UTF-8 (which *is* unicode, so the library functions do support unicode). Currently, not all of the Phobos library functions handle UTF-8 correctly, but many do (see std.file).
 
"Miguel Ferreira Simões" <kobold@netcabo.pt> wrote in message news:c4mc2t$1upj$1@digitaldaemon.com...
after reading the Dspecs... i understood that Walter considered Unicode the future.
the problem is that almost all functions from the standard library(std) do not support unicode.
examples:
    char[] getDirName(char[] fullname)
    void rename(char[] from, char[] to)
 
probably this question may sounds a little bit silly...
Can anyone explain me how we should support internationalization? Is it illegal to have unicode dir paths?
Is Unicode only used to communicate with a client, like error messages?
 
best regards,
Miguel Simões