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Re: Call for proofreaders - perldelta.pod

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From:
Karl Williamson
Date:
April 26, 2011 13:20
Subject:
Re: Call for proofreaders - perldelta.pod
Message ID:
4DB728DE.3060302@khwilliamson.com
On 04/26/2011 02:10 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:

>> Seriously: are we or are we not restricted to 7-bit ASCII?
>> A simple yes or no answer is all I am looking for.
>
> I do dearly hope the answer is no. Better have high-fidelity data
> and make tools with limited outputs dumb it down than reduce
> precision in the data itself. But for a few documents it might
> be worth dumbing them down until the tools catch up and perldelta
> seems like a likely candidate for those. I was hoping someone who
> owns one of the formatters would opine about the patch, and just
> offered a copy-editing nitpick in case it got applied…
>

+1

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