Re: RFC: Foreign objects in perl

[Bart Schuller]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:22:28AM -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:
> One thing: remember, there is a lot of talk about having
> perl6 use Unicode internally, which means that things like
> method names should be wchar_t * (or whatever).

No, that's the beauty of utf8: the C datatype is still char* and as long
as you stick to 7-bits ASCII you won't know the difference. wchar_t
comes from a totally different school of thought, where all your strings
are instantly incompatible and take twice or four times the memory.

Larry knew what he was doing when he decided on utf8.

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