On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Tod Harter wrote: > My point is that programmers have NOT realized that, and it would be much > simpler for them (and for a lot of existing code) to make the leap to 1 char > = 4 bytes or 1 char = 2 bytes, than to "1 char = ? bytes.
99.99% of programmers shouldn't give two hoots about this. It's all just characters. Currently the only reason perl hackers have to worry about UTF-8ness is because of perl's broken support for unicode. 5.8 hopefully should fix it so you never have to concern yourself beyond the fact that a string is set of zero or more characters. So it doesn't matter if UTF-8 is a hack or if it's the most elegant system in the Universe - everything has some amount of hack-ness to it (show me a computer system completely free of hack-ness and I guarantee it's not a commercially viable system). Stuff works or it gets ignored or fixed. I don't see anyone either ignoring UTF-8 or trying to fix it. -- <!-- Matt --> <:->Get a smart net</:-> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
