On 25 May 2013 11:58, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

On 5/24/2013 3:42 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:

I tried writing language-agnostic text-processing programs in C/C++
before the widespread adoption of Unicode.

One of the first, and best, decisions I made for D was it would be Unicode front to back.

Indeed, excellent decision!

So when we define operators for u × v and a · b, or maybe n²? ;)

At the time, Unicode was poorly supported by operating systems and lots of software, and I encountered some initial resistance to it. But I believed Unicode was the inevitable future.

Code pages, Shift-JIS, EBCDIC, etc., should all be terminated with prejudice.