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Postings from October 2009
I would like to start submitting patches to fix the "Unicode bug" wherein the semantics differs depending on the internal utf8-or-not representation of a scalar. I submitted the first steps for that quite a while back, and Rafael made a separate branch for that. I'm not sure how to proceed. I need that to go forward. Do I do something, or what? It is a tiny patch. At the time Rafael expressed some concern that I was using up a bit from PL_hints, and suggested using the newer hash instead. I would prefer to keep using PL_hints for several reasons: 1) The closely related bits for locale and "use bytes" are located here, and it seems to make sense to keep them all in the same structure. And there are several bits available even after this one is used up. 2) It's easier for me to just copy the existing paradigm for these than to figure out how to do the other 3) I'm leery of the other scheme given all the problems there are with charnames in regcomp.c. I'm pretty ignorant on this, and ignorance leads to paranoia, not bliss. But I'm not sure we've gotten to the bottom of the cause, and I'd just as soon not get involved with depending on something that may be flaky. Now perhaps this is used with full success elsewhere, and my concerns are just paranoia. But then I go back to reasons 1 and 2.Thread Next