On 5/12/2016 9:15 AM, Guillaume Chatelet wrote:
Well maybe it was a disaster because the problem was only half solved. It looks like Perl 6 got it right: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-perl-6-and-you/
Perl isn't a systems programming language. A systems language requires access to code units, invalid encodings, etc. Nor is Perl efficient. There are a lot of major efficiency gains by not autodecoding.
