Re: perlpod rewrite, draft 1 && perlpodspec, draft 1

[Gurusamy Sarathy]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 12:46:13 CDT, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>(not talking about pod in particular in the following)
>
>So you think we should declare and document that in future versions
>(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***?

Yes.

>(Naturally, to ease the transition, some sort of conversion tools for
>places like EBCDIC would be needed.)

Such as an I/O filter on PL_rsfp that could be enabled by default if
so dwimmed, perhaps.


Sarathy
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