The Case Against Autodecode

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 03:30:53PM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 5/27/16 3:10 PM, ag0aep6g wrote:
> > I don't think there is value in distinguishing by language. The
> > point of Unicode is that you shouldn't need to do that.
> 
> It seems code points are kind of useless because they don't really
> mean anything, would that be accurate? -- Andrei

That's what we've been trying to say all along! :-P  They're a kind of
low-level Unicode construct used for building "real" characters, i.e.,
what a layperson would consider to be a "character".


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