The Case Against Autodecode

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 19:20:19 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
>
> The 'length' of a character is not one in all contexts.
> The following text takes six columns in my terminal:
>
> 日本語
> 123456

That's a property of your font and font rendering engine, not 
Unicode. (Also, it's probably not quite six columns; most fonts 
I've tested, 漢字 are rendered as something like 1.5 characters 
wide, assuming your terminal doesn't overlap them.)

-Wyatt