The Case Against Autodecode

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 20:28:32 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> On 05/31/2016 06:29 PM, Joakim wrote:
>> D devs should lead the way in getting rid of the UTF-8 
>> encoding, not
>> bickering about how to make it more palatable.  I suggested a
>> single-byte encoding for most languages, with double-byte for 
>> the ones
>> which wouldn't fit in a byte.  Use some kind of header or 
>> other metadata
>> to combine strings of different languages, _rather than 
>> encoding the
>> language into every character!_
>
> Guys, may I ask you to move this discussion to a new thread? 
> I'd like to follow the (already crowded) autodecode thing, and 
> this is really a separate topic.

No, this is the root of the problem, but I'm not interested in 
debating it, so you can go back to discussing how to avoid the 
elephant in the room.