The Case Against Autodecode

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/3/2016 3:14 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> That's not right either. Cyrillic letters can look slightly different from their
> latin lookalikes in some circumstances.
>
> I'm sure there are extremely good reasons for not using the latin lookalikes in
> the Cyrillic alphabets, because most (all?) 8-bit Cyrillic encodings use
> separate codes for the lookalikes. It's not restricted to Unicode.


How did people ever get by with printed books and documents?