Re: qu operator? [inaba@st.rim.or.jp: patch for 0x00-0xff always produce bytes (Was: Re: One more patch for UTF8)]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:33:01PM -0800, Peter Prymmer wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Simon Cozens wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> qu() - almost too cute.  Very nice.
> 
> Peter Prymmer

The patch is in the 8453 snapshot.

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• qu operator? [inaba@st.rim.or.jp: patch for 0x00-0xff always produce bytes (Was: Re: One more patch for UTF8)] by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: qu operator? [inaba@st.rim.or.jp: patch for 0x00-0xff always produce bytes (Was: Re: One more patch for UTF8)] by Simon Cozens
• Re: qu operator? [inaba@st.rim.or.jp: patch for 0x00-0xff alwaysproduce bytes (Was: Re: One more patch for UTF8)] by Peter Prymmer
• Re: qu operator? [inaba@st.rim.or.jp: patch for 0x00-0xff always produce bytes (Was: Re: One more patch for UTF8)] by Jarkko Hietaniemi