Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: >>>Python explicitly distinguishes byte strings and Unicode strings, >>>which allows the two models to coexist without ambiguity. >>> >>> >> >>I think that (not doing) this was the basic failure of the Perl Unicode >>model. We made a valiant attempt at making them the same and allowing >>old legacy code to work, and I think we got close, but the scheme could >>carry us only so far. >> > > Actually I thought that the Perl implementation of Unicode was pretty > good, at least since 5.8.0... (5.6.x series was kind of broken IMHO, and > there was no 'Encode'...).
Gee, thanks, in that case could everyone please erase from their minds what I just said :-) Normally people just bitch on and on about how Perl's Unicode is sooo broken, which is not exactly a motivation builder for me... > -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
