Re: Char encoding

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:16 AM 8/5/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Benjamin Stuhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >It has also led to the perl5 internals being, to put it
> >bluntly, a horrible mess.
>
>Agreed - but that is due to grafting it in late - and possibly
>trying to be too clever intuiting whether existing perl5-code is
>working on bytes or chars.

I'm tempted to just say "utf-8 *everywhere*", but that's got the whole 
binary data problem. Bleah.

I think, unfortunately, the language folks need to hammer out the semantics 
before we can get the details worked on. :(

                                        Dan

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