On Tuesday 26 February 2002 06:36, Robin Berjon wrote: > On Monday 25 February 2002 23:22, Tod Harter wrote: > > In the long run the real problem is that Perl itself is not really "UTF > > Aware", and many of the libraries that supposedly do "XML Processing" > > don't really understand character sets properly either. Its just going to > > be a long while before software catches up to this entire issue. Try perl > > 5.7.1, at least it is a LOT smarter about understanding different > > encodings than earlier versions. > > This issue is not due to Perl. Also, I wouldn't recommend that someone run > 5.7.1 (no more than I'd recommend 5.7.2 which is the current Perl) as it is > barely alpha.
I wouldn't run it in a production environment, not without a good bit of testing, its true, but I can happily say its a pretty stable version of perl, alpha or not. 5.7.2 I don't know about, but the perl core team rarely releases versions that are seriously broken. :o). The GENERAL problem with character sets though is definitely that every tool/module has its own ideas about encodings :(. Software should be encoding agnostic, and until that day arrives life is going to be painful! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
