The Case Against Autodecode

[Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/27/16 3:30 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu 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
>

The only unmistakably correct use I can think of is transcoding from one 
UTF representation to another.

That is, in order to transcode from UTF8 to UTF16, I don't need to know 
anything about character composition.

-Steve