> > The compiled forms of the multibyte and two-byte encodings are > > larger. So I envisage -MEncode=japanese (say) to load clusters. > > Once again it is programatically correct and politically incorrect. > IMHO Encode loads nothing but ASCII and utf8 by default to be fair.
ASCII <-> UTF-8 conversion is not only fair but quite trivial :-) -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen