On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:19:14 BST, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 12:46:13PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>> (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.
I understand your position, but I disagree.
>"conversion tools" are already on the menu for perl6
5.7.x has (in PerlIO) all the infrastructure needed to make it happen.
I don't see why we should put off for tomorrow what we can do today.
Sarathy
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