John Delacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> At 4:25 pm +0100 2/2/01, Andreas Marcel Riechert wrote:
>
> | Even if we won't get a new text editor in the next release, it seems to
> | be a good idea to think about the features, the next editor should have.
> | I think -- because Perl is moving more and more in the Unicode direction --
> | a minimum requirement should be Unicode awareness.
[snip]
> On the subject of Unicode, I'm getting increasingly fearful of the fate of UTF-7.
> IE and OE (Mac and Windows) do both interpret UTF-7 but UTF-7 is not always offered
> as an option in sending mail. I see no mention of UTF-7 in perl's current Unicode
> offerings either. UTF-8 is a very bad idea for mail, especially if you're Japanese
> or Chinese, for reasons well explained in the RFC, and yet it is now hard even to
> get information on UTF-7 at the Unicode site. Does anyone know what the destiny of
> UTF-7 is? I fear another American plot, like US_ASCII :-)
Unfortunately, the problem is not wether Unicode is good or bad, but the direction
Perl (and MacOS) is moving to. Therefore, our future seems to be Unicode.
Personally, I would prefer character encodings which comply to the TAD (TRON
Application Databus) Protocoll, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the future
of Perl or MacOS.
Still dreaming of Perl port to the B-TRON OS...
Andreas Marcel Riechert
