The Case Against Autodecode

[Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 20:15:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 7. Autodecode cannot be used with unicode path/filenames, 
> because it is legal (at least on Linux) to have invalid UTF-8 
> as filenames. It turns out in the wild that pure Unicode is not 
> universal - there's lots of dirty Unicode that should remain 
> unmolested, and autocode does not play with that.

This just means that filenames mustn't be represented as strings; 
it's unrelated to auto decoding.