* Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-07-24T00:39:01] > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > > > Is there a good way to determine whether to not to return Unicode > > strings? That's what I'm doing now, but obviously it's not so nice at > > the console. I don't do much serious work with Unicode in Perl, and > > there might be an obvious solution I don't know about. > > For the Unicode stuff, look at what's done in the DateTime::Locale > modules. Really you just write everything as bytes and stick "use utf8" > at the top of the module. In our case, we only load the utf8 pragma with > Perl 5.6.0+
What I was hoping for was a way to know whether it's useful to provide
Unicode strings as results. In Esperanto, there are well-accepted
conventions for ASCIIfying its Latin-3 letters. For example,
"\x{0109}u" in Unicode would be written "cxu" in 7-bit/latin-1/ascii.
If it's possible to know at runtime which is available, the locale could
provide the more useful string. Perhaps this problem is out of the
scope of DateTime, though...
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