The Case Against Autodecode

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 02.06.2016 22:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 06/02/2016 03:34 PM, deadalnix wrote:
>> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 19:05:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Pretty much everything. Consider s and s1 string variables with
>>> possibly different encodings (UTF8/UTF16).
>>>
>>> * s.all!(c => c == 'ö') works only with autodecoding. It returns
>>> always false without.
>>>
>>
>> False.
>
> True. "Are all code points equal to this one?" -- Andrei
>
>

I.e. you are saying that 'works' means 'operates on code points'.