The Case Against Autodecode

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d]

Am Tue, 31 May 2016 16:56:43 -0400
schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:

> On 05/31/2016 03:44 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > In the vast majority of cases what folks care about is full character  
> 
> How are you so sure? -- Andrei

Because a full character is the typical unit of a written
language. It's what we visualize in our heads when we think
about finding a substring or counting characters. A special
case of this is the reduction to ASCII where we can use code
units in place of grapheme clusters.

-- 
Marco