The Case Against Autodecode

[Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 21:01:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 05/31/2016 04:01 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> Wasn't the whole point of operating at the code point level by 
>> default to
>> make it so that code would be operating on full characters by 
>> default
>> instead of chopping them up as is so easy to do when operating 
>> at the code
>> unit level?
>
> The point is to operate on representation-independent entities 
> (Unicode code points) instead of low-level 
> representation-specific artifacts (code units).

_Both_ are low-level representation-specific artifacts.