The Case Against Autodecode

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 18:43:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> It's almost as if printed documents and books have never 
> existed!
some old xUSSR books which has some English text sometimes used 
Cyrillic font to represent English. it was awful, and barely 
readable. this was done to ease the work of compositors, and the 
result was unacceptable. do you feel a recognizable pattern here? 
;-)