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Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> writes: > Doesn't really matter where they install the artificial cap, because for > philosophical reasons Perl is gonna support larger values anyway. It's > just that 4 bytes of UTF-8 happens to be large enough to represent > anything UTF-16 can represent with surrogates. So they refuse to > believe in anything longer than 4 bytes, even though the representation > can be extended much further. (Perl 5 extends it all the way to 64-bit > values, represented in 13 bytes!) That's probably unnecessary; I really don't expect them to ever use all 31 bytes that the IETF-standardized version of UTF-8 supports. > I don't know if Perl will have a utf16 that is distinguised from UTF-16. I wouldn't bother spending any time on UTF-16 beyond basic support for converting away from it. It combines the worst of both worlds, and I don't expect it to be used much now that they've buried the idea of keeping Unicode to 16 bits. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>Thread Previous | Thread Next