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.
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
:
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.