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On Fri, 04 Feb 2000 08:10:05 PST, Larry Wall wrote:
>Chip Salzenberg writes:
>: Having finally gotten around to reading perllocale, I find this
>: welcome feature:
>: [...] if the C<$^U> global flag is set to C<1>, nearly all
>: operations will use character semantics by default.
>
>Let's be clear about this. According to my understanding, the purpose
>of $^U is to make all *interfaces* use utf8 by default.
Yup, that's the goal. 640 also uses $^U to skew the behavior of chr(200)
and sprintf("%c",200) the utf8 way, but that's going to go away. (The
result of those will autoconvert at the point of use/catenation/whatever.)
> By default
>operations are always polymorphic, and we only bend the default in the
>direction of bytes.
Yes.
>My goal is to turn the utf8 pragma into a no-op, [...]
Hey, that's exactly what I say in perlunicode.pod. :-)
Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com
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