On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:33:50PM +0900, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:
> Can it be implemented as pragma? If it can be, it'd be very
> convinient.
Turned out that the pragma is called:
use encoding 'utf8';
this is only lightly documented in perlunicode.pod, and not
in encoding.pm itself!
I'm w
As a result of a recent discussion in perl-unicode, it was apparent
that these facts were generally unknown to most folks working with
Perl's unicode model:
- Byte strings are upgraded to Unicode strings with "Latin-1".
- Unicode strings are downgraded to Byte strings with "UTF-8".
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