The Case Against Autodecode

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 31 14:09:21 PDT 2016


On 31.05.2016 22:20, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am Tue, 31 May 2016 16:29:33 +0000
> schrieb Joakim<dlang at joakim.fea.st>:
>
>> >Part of it is the complexity of written language, part of it is
>> >bad technical decisions.  Building the default string type in D
>> >around the horrible UTF-8 encoding was a fundamental mistake,
>> >both in terms of efficiency and complexity.  I noted this in one
>> >of my first threads in this forum, and as Andrei said at the
>> >time, nobody agreed with me, with a lot of hand-waving about how
>> >efficiency wasn't an issue or that UTF-8 arrays were fine.
>> >Fast-forward years later and exactly the issues I raised are now
>> >causing pain.
> Maybe you can dig up your old post and we can look at each of
> your complaints in detail.
>

It is probably this one. Not sure what "exactly the issues" are though.

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/bwbuowkblpdxcpysejpb@forum.dlang.org


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