Re: Unicode handling

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 04:10:28PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Yes, I realize that point 5 may result in someone getting a meaningless 
> Unicode string. Too bad--it is *not* the place of a programming language to 
> enforce validity on data. That's the programmer's job.

But points 4 and 5 do enforce Unicode on everyone. Not that I'm particularly
upset by that idea, but... :) 

    open FH, $datafile or die $!; undef $/;
    $foo = <FH>;
    die "Confusing" if -s $datafile != length $foo;

I'm just not sure it's fair on Old World hackers. Will there be a way to stop
Perl upgrading stuff to Unicode on the way in?

-- 
<pudge> i've dreamed in Perl many time, last night i dreamed in Make,
and that just sucks.