The Case Against Autodecode

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/3/2016 11:54 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 03.06.2016 20:41, Walter Bright wrote:
>> How did people ever get by with printed books and documents?
> They can disambiguate the letters based on context well enough.

Characters do not have semantic meaning. Their meaning is always inferred from 
the context. Unicode's troubles started the moment they stepped beyond their 
charter.