Re: Understanding Unicode support in Perl

2003-01-26 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
The 'perluniintro' and 'perlunicode' may be of help, online for example at http://www.perldoc.com/, http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perluniintro.html http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlunicode.html As Autrijus mentioned, the implicit "UTF-8-ification" based on one's locale settings is

Re: Understanding Unicode support in Perl

2003-01-25 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:23:49PM -0500, Tay, William wrote: > Internally, Perl represent character strings in UTF8. The PerlIO layer for > input and output enables other encodings to be used for STDIN, STDOUT, > STDERR and filehandling operations. For instance, if ru_RU.KOI8-R is > specified (use

Understanding Unicode support in Perl

2003-01-24 Thread Tay, William
Hi, Please comment on my finding below and see if I have understood Unicode support in Perl correctly. Internally, Perl represent character strings in UTF8. The PerlIO layer for input and output enables other encodings to be used for STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR and filehandling operations. For instance