The Case Against Autodecode

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 03.06.2016 20:41, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/3/2016 3:14 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> That's not right either. Cyrillic letters can look slightly different
>> from their
>> latin lookalikes in some circumstances.
>>
>> I'm sure there are extremely good reasons for not using the latin
>> lookalikes in
>> the Cyrillic alphabets, because most (all?) 8-bit Cyrillic encodings use
>> separate codes for the lookalikes. It's not restricted to Unicode.
>
>
> How did people ever get by with printed books and documents?

They can disambiguate the letters based on context well enough.