The Case Against Autodecode

[ag0aep6g via Digitalmars-d]

On 05/31/2016 06:29 PM, Joakim wrote:
> D devs should lead the way in getting rid of the UTF-8 encoding, not
> bickering about how to make it more palatable.  I suggested a
> single-byte encoding for most languages, with double-byte for the ones
> which wouldn't fit in a byte.  Use some kind of header or other metadata
> to combine strings of different languages, _rather than encoding the
> language into every character!_

Guys, may I ask you to move this discussion to a new thread? I'd like to 
follow the (already crowded) autodecode thing, and this is really a 
separate topic.