The Case Against Autodecode

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 27 May 2016 at 19:30:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> It seems code points are kind of useless because they don't 
> really mean anything, would that be accurate? -- Andrei

It might help to think of code points as being a kind of byte 
code for a text-representing VM.

It's not meaningless, but it also isn't trivial and relevant 
metrics can only be seen in application.

BTW you don't even have to get into unicode to hit complications. 
Tab, backspace, carriage return, these are part of ASCII but 
already complicate questions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6792812/the-backspace-escape-character-b-in-c-unexpected-behavior

came up on a quick search. Does the backspace character reduce 
the length of a string? In some contexts, maybe.