On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:58:46AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: > / Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > | On Saturday 15 July 2000, at 15 h 33, > | the keyboard of Michael Koehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > | > default perl for Debian. To use Perl 5.6 is a requirement for > | > any serious XML work, because of `use utf8;`. > | > | You criticize very loudly Debian's handling of CPAN modules and, > | while I don't know if you are right about CPAN (because you provide > | no details), this claim is obviously ridiculous: I handle XML daily > | with Perl 5.005. Where did you see that UTF8 is mandatory for the > | XML author? Do you really use an UTF8 editor, for instance? > > <delurk> > While it's true that you can do a lot of XML processing with Perl 5.005 > and ASCII, it's also true that UTF8 is a required encoding for XML. > And I have, on several occasions, been tripped up by UTF8 encoded > files (produced by perfectly conforming XML applications) that then > get mangled by some perl script or another. > </delurk> >
There's a work around by using the recode utility, but it still just a workaround (especially that sablotron doesn't seems to respect the output encoding argument). So, yes, you can work with perl 5.005 but perl 5.6 is still better. > Be seeing you, > norm > > -- > Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | There is always some accident in the > http://nwalsh.com/ | best of things, whether thoughts or > | expressions or deeds. The memorable > | thought, the happy expression, the > | admirable deed are only partly > | yours.--Thoreau -- -------------------------------* *------------------------- Fabien Niñoles / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chevalier Servant de Sa Dame / / C15D FE9E BB35 F596 127F Veneur Gris par la Clef / / BF7D 8F1F DFC9 BCE0 9436 Chaton pour Debian / / http://www.tzone.org/~fabien --------------------------* *------------------------------
