On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 09:19:14PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > (not talking about pod in particular in the following)
> >
> > So you think we should declare and document that in future versions
>
> "you" plural? I'll assume that you were asking all of p5p.
Singular, actually. But others can join the fray.
> > (5.10?) we should adopt Unicode and UTF-8 across the board, meaning
> > that things like chr(), ord(), pack C, unpack C, \xHH should start
> > being strictly Unicode and UTF-8? For example, chr(0x41) being the
> > Unicode uppercase A, and ord("A") returning 0x41, ***EVERYWHERE***?
> > (Naturally, to ease the transition, some sort of conversion tools for
> > places like EBCDIC would be needed.)
>
> I think what you are suggesting would seem sensible for perl6, but not
> for perl 5.10.
>
> "conversion tools" are already on the menu for perl6
>
> Nicholas Clark
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