The Case Against Autodecode

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/3/2016 2:10 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Actually, I would argue that the moment that Unicode is concerned with what
> the character actually looks like rather than what character it logically is
> that it's gone outside of its charter. The way that characters actually look
> is far too dependent on fonts, and aside from display code, code does not
> care one whit what the character looks like.

What I meant was pretty clear. Font is an artistic style that does not change 
context nor semantic meaning. If a font choice changes the meaning then it is 
not a font.