Fix Phobos dependencies on autodecoding
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Fri Aug 16 06:28:30 UTC 2019
On 8/15/2019 3:56 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> And now that you agree that character encoding should be based on
> "symbol" rather than "glyph", the next step is the realization that, in
> the wide world of international languages out there, there exist
> multiple "symbols" that are rendered with the *same* glyph. This is a
> hard fact of reality, and no matter how you wish it to be otherwise, it
> simply ain't so. Your ideal of "character == glyph" simply doesn't
> work in real life.
Splitting semantic hares is pointless, as the fact remains it worked just fine
in real life before Unicode, it's called "printing" on paper.
As for not working in real life, that's Unicode.
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