* Michael Ludwig <michael.lud...@xing.com> [2010-05-04 13:10]: > Is it this (theoretically fragile) implicitness in handling > character strings that makes \C a bad idea?
Yes. It will do different things with semantically identical strings whose only difference is whether the UTF8 flag is set, ie. it suffers the same problems that the `bytes` pragma has. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>