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From:
Simon Cozens
Date:
September 14, 2000 01:57
Subject:
Re: unicode support and perl
Message ID:
20000914095542.B15055@deep-dark-truthful-mirror.perlhacker.org
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 05:42:25AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> - perl is 100% unusable as soon as it comes to using utf8. I conjecture
>   that nobody has seriously done anything with perl and utf8, given the
>   amount of functionality that breaks when you do so. So first priority
>   should be to get it working in practise, before creating fancy modules
>   to convert between usable and unusable representations.

Tell me *what's* broken, and I'll fix it. If you give me test cases, I'm happy
to work on them. If you just say "it's unusable", there's nothing I or anyone
else can do about it. :(

-- 
"I will make no bargains with terrorist hardware."
-- Peter da Silva
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