Creeping Bloat in Phobos

[monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 23:48:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I think it was you that suggested that instead of throwing on 
> invalid UTF, that the replacement character be used instead? Or 
> maybe not, I'm not quite sure.
>
> Regardless, the replacement character method is widely used and 
> accepted practice. There's no reason to throw.

This I'm OK to stand stand behind as acceptable change (should we 
decide to go with). It will kill the "auto-decode throws and uses 
the GC" argument.