Re: Locales: An Analysis

2000-02-04 Thread Gurusamy Sarathy
On Fri, 04 Feb 2000 09:52:20 PST, Larry Wall wrote: The long answer is that we're phasing out the experimental "use utf8" declaration. The status as of 640 is that only two things are affected by Cuse utf8: interpretation of literals/identifiers in the source text; and how REs are compiled.

Re: Locales: An Analysis

2000-02-04 Thread Larry Wall
Gurusamy Sarathy writes: : Treating literals as utf8 is a bit of a compatibility issue, but : I think we should get around that by treating the lex input stream : as any other discipline. IOW, default PL_rsfp to byte mode, : and let users push a utf8/utf16/whatever discipline on it if they :

Re: Locales: An Analysis

2000-02-04 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 11:21:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: Tom Christiansen writes: : Well, I hope they enforce it. We're starting to get all sorts of : gobbledygook in the subjects of mail messages. I'd love it if mailers : rejected messages whose headers contain illegal UTF-8 sequences.