The Case Against Autodecode

[Minas Mina via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 20:42:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 05/27/2016 03:39 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> On 27-May-2016 21:11, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 5/27/16 10:15 AM, Chris wrote:
>>>> It has happened to me that characters like "é" return length 
>>>> == 2
>>>
>>> Would normalization make length 1? -- Andrei
>>
>> No, this is not the point of normalization.
>
> What is? -- Andrei

This video will be helpfull :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0GK-9f4dl8

It talks about Unicode in C++, but also explains how unicode 
works.