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On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:41:26PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 08:33:37PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 07:14:07PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > > Protocols: if all I know is that my output is 500 Unicode characters
> > > long, how am I to print out Content-Length?
> >
> > As I said to abigail, I would love a concrete explanation of what
> > you have in mind. In particular, what is your mechanism for
> > ensuring that perl is representing $output as utf8?
>
> Ahhh. True, got me there. I can't ensure that.
*But* if you use bytes::length, it doesn't matter - you'll get the right
answer whether or not $output is UTF8-encoded. Core's length, on the other
hand, has to use character semantics because of the principle of least
surprise, amongst other things. Hence the two have to exist, hence use bytes,
QED. Thanks, Andrew. :)
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