The Case Against Autodecode

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/5/2016 1:07 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 June 2016 at 03:03:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Oh rubbish. Let go of the idea that choosing bad fonts should drive Unicode
>> codepoint decisions.
>>
>
> Interestingly enough, I've mentioned earlier here that only people from the US
> would believe that documents with mixed languages aren't commonplace. I wasn't
> expecting to be proven right that fast.
>

You'd be in error. I've been casually working on my grandfather's thesis trying 
to make a web version of it, and it is mixed German, French, and English. I've 
also made a digital version of an old history book that is mixed English, old 
English, German, French, Greek, old Greek, and Egyptian hieroglyphs (available 
on Amazons in your neighborhood!).

I've also lived in Germany for 3 years, though that was before computers took 
over the world.