On 2 Nov 2002 at 0:06, Simon Cozens wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Zimmerman) writes:
> > Larry has been consistently using
> > 
> > OxAB op 0xBB
> > 
> > in his messages to represent a (French quote) hyperop,
> > (corresponding to the Unicode characters 0x00AB and 0x00BB)
> 
> More and more conversations like this, (and how many have we seen here
> already?) about characters sets, encodings, mail quoting issues, in
> fact, anything other than Perl, will be rife on every Perl-related
> mailing list if we persist with this idiotic idea of having Unicode
> operators.

It may seem idiotic to the egocentric people who only needs chars a-z 
in his language. But for all others (think about Chinese), Unicode is
real asset.

-- 
Markus Laire 'malaire' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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