On 10/17/07, Juerd Waalboer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
utf8::downgrade();
Thanks!
Dear Georg,
Isn't it about time to find a good name for crippled character sets
with ordinals below 256 only? Otherwise Unicode characters will
continue to be considered the special case...
Legacy encodings.
Nicely derogatory and generally accepted.
Yours,
Martin
Georg Bauhaus skribis 2007-10-18 17:01 (+0200):
Isn't it about time to find a good name for crippled character sets
with ordinals below 256 only?
These are single byte encodings. I prefer to add the word legacy
too.
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Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn,
Juerd Waalboer:
Juerd Waalboer wrote:
E R skribis 2007-10-18 9:50 (-0500):
I'm preparing a presentation about Perl and Unicode support, and I'd
like to give a name for characters with ordinals above 255. Is there a
good name for that class?
They are characters outside the latin-1 range.
Latin-1 has
I should have added that in my presentation I am attempting to present
Perl strings from a character set agnostic perspective. So, even
though there is a strong bias for Perl to treat character ordinals
255 as Unicode code-points, I don't want people to automatically think
Unicode when
E R skribis 2007-10-18 16:21 (-0500):
I should have added that in my presentation I am attempting to present
Perl strings from a character set agnostic perspective.
That is silly, because Perl itself is not at all character set agnostic.
It has unicode strings and it has binary strings, but
