Re: RFC: Foreign objects in perl

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:15:54PM -0400, Dan Sugalski 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).
> 
> Good point. I shall have to think Unicode more. (UTF-32, anyone? :) Though 

Not necessary, but we should not rule it out. I think UTF16 internally is
the way to go.

> it does present a problem for those languages that don't do Unicode and do 
> char* instead.
 
I would guess we'd have to convert everything into Unicode.

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