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On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:54:25PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 05:50 PM 9/26/00 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >At 02:14 PM 9/26/00 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: > >>But the point of an I/O discipline is to convert to/from > >>UTF-8, perl's internal form. If you want to write a > >>shift-JIS to big5 converter, do > > > >UTF-8 may not be perl's internal form. Depending on what Larry's looking > >at, perl might not *have* a canonical internal form for character data... > > D'oh! Sorry, wring mailing list. I was thinking this came in on one of the > perl 6 lists.... Well, let's go over here, then. I just submitted an RFC for internal string abstraction, which may or may not be the same thing as what you were just talking about. -- So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger-all down here on Earth. (Monty Python)Thread Next