On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Peter Kirk wrote: > On 07/10/2003 05:29, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > I could imagine a dialect of Basic which had separate string handling > functions for UTF-8 bytes and for characters. This is how the
In Perl 5.8 or later that uses UTF-8, unless otherwise explicitly specified, character-related functions all operate at the level of Unicode characters (represented in UTF-8). If you want to work with a raw byte stream, your intent has to be declared explicitly. Jungshik
