On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
I repeat: all your filehandles are still 'binary' unless you either
explicitly (binmode)
Fine.
or implicitly (locale) command them not be.
Not fine without a warning. This is 'action at a distance' (this is the
same reason un'local'ized usage of
or implicitly (locale) command them not be.
Not fine without a warning. This is 'action at a distance' (this is the
same reason un'local'ized usage of the 'special' variables is nearly
On that we can agree, kind of-- I find the *whole* locale system to be
a Bad Idea (tm) (not just any UTF-8
On January 5, 2003 at 05:42, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
This is Bad Juju (tm). It _guarantees_ script breakage (potentially
silently!) for Unix people doing _anything_ but ASCII text manipulation.
I repeat: I don't think you can do more than ASCII by hanging tooth
and nail to the
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:16:38PM -0600, Earl Hood wrote:
This is Bad Juju (tm). It _guarantees_ script breakage (potentially
silently!) for Unix people doing _anything_ but ASCII text manipulation.
I repeat: I don't think you can do more than ASCII by hanging tooth
and nail to the
