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2009/10/30 karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>: > 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. I have now merged this branch in blead. Further patches welcome :)Thread Previous | Thread Next