> Sure it does scare me. I have to confess UTF-EBCDIC was totally out > of mind. But here I got a hint; Like what perl used to be, CJK > encodings are very, very ASCII-chauvinistic; Its variable-length > encoding heavily relies on the fact that ascii leaves MSB of the byte > alone. That way you can tell if a given byte is a whole (half-width) > character or half of full-width character.
After some thought I think that might be the case: maybe we should just give up even thinking about supporting the triplet CJK-Unicode-EBCDIC, I know the combination of just the latter two has brought my poor brain close to meltdown... summary: maybe we should just skip those two tests. (And I disclaim any notion that they would be "my" tests :-) -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
