Thanks for the interesting link. He and I share a lot of "grumps" about Unicode. And unfortunately, it does make a lot of sense when you do the research and reading, and like him I doubt that I could have done any better.
Did I imagine that I heard (or read somewhere?) that the Perl developers chose a 4-byte UTF32 encoding for their internal representation of all characters? Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: good article: The Grumpy Programmer on Unicode http://www.thegrumpyprogrammer.com/2014/08/oh-unicode-why-are-you-so-frustrating.html I found it quite interesting. And explains some of the decisions about why Unicode is so complicated. Basically, it tried to be compatible will all existing encodings, in some way or another. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
