June 2018 Update

Task/Unicode-strings/D/unicode-strings.d

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+import std.stdio;
+import std.uni; // standard package for normalization, composition/decomposition, etc..
+import std.utf; // standard package for decoding/encoding, etc...
+
+void main() {
+    // normal identifiers are allowed
+    int a;
+    // unicode characters are allowed for identifers
+    int δ;
+
+    char c;  // 1 to 4 byte unicode character
+    wchar w; // 2 or 4 byte unicode character
+    dchar d; // 4 byte unicode character
+
+    writeln("some text");     // strings by default are UTF8
+    writeln("some text"c);    // optional suffix for UTF8
+    writeln("こんにちは"c);      // unicode charcters are just fine (stored in the string type)
+    writeln("Здравствуйте"w); // also avaiable are UTF16 string  (stored in the wstring type)
+    writeln("שלום"d);         // and UTF32 strings (stored in the dstring type)
+
+    // escape sequences like what is defined in C are also allowed inside of strings and characters.
+}