--- Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
It has also led to the perl5 internals being, to put it
bluntly, a horrible mess. And forget about the regex
engine.
Perhaps if it was designed in from the beginning things
would be better, but this is something that needs serious
discussion.
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