The Case Against Autodecode

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/01/2016 06:25 AM, Marc Schütz wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 21:01:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 05/31/2016 04:01 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> Wasn't the whole point of operating at the code point level by
>>> default to
>>> make it so that code would be operating on full characters by default
>>> instead of chopping them up as is so easy to do when operating at the
>>> code
>>> unit level?
>>
>> The point is to operate on representation-independent entities
>> (Unicode code points) instead of low-level representation-specific
>> artifacts (code units).
>
> _Both_ are low-level representation-specific artifacts.

Maybe this is a misunderstanding. Representation = how things are laid 
out in memory. What does associating numbers with various Unicode 
symbols have to do with representation? -- Andrei