On Thursday, 12 May 2016 at 15:55:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
This reminds me of all the discussions around trying to hide the fact that D strings are UTF-8 code units. The ultimate outcome of trying to make it "make sense" was the utter disaster of autodecoding.
Well maybe it was a disaster because the problem was only half solved.
It looks like Perl 6 got it right: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-perl-6-and-you/
