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Simon Cozens
Date:
January 14, 2001 04:31
Subject:
Re: qu operator? [inaba@st.rim.or.jp: patch for 0x00-0xff always produce bytes (Was: Re: One more patch for UTF8)]
Message ID:
20010114123137.A18972@pembro26.pmb.ox.ac.uk
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 09:36:46PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>    chr returns bytes for 0x00-0xff,
>    vstring is bytes if all `revison' < 256,
>    a string containing \x{0} to \x{ff} is bytes.
>  and these behaviors are not affected by utf8 pragma.

Excellent!

> 3. New `qu' operator to generate UTF8 string explicitly.

Yes. Like that a lot.

-- 
"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development."
(By dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca)

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