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From:
Gerard Goossen
Date:
February 4, 2007 02:24
Subject:
Re: Future Perl development
Message ID:
20070204102800.GE12100@ostwald
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:45:45AM +0900, SADAHIRO Tomoyuki wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:43:51 -0800, chromatic wrote
> 
> > On Saturday 03 February 2007 10:05, Gerard Goossen wrote:
> > 
> > > But instead of doing a rewrite, I prefer to start with the current code, and 
> > > actually have a new version in a year.
> > 
> > Here's the code.  Good luck.
> > 
> > > So there are many areas where our goals and needs overlap, and of course
> > > we should work together on those issues.
> > 
> > "We" who?  Do it.  If your idea works out, you may attract other people.
> 
> At least his idea should not work on EBCDIC platforms like IBM z/OS.
 
I choose to make UTF-8 the encoding used for strings (some people would say 
this is the internal encoding and thus should not matter).
Support for EBCDIC would be in the form that input/output will be converted to EBCDIC.


Gerard Goossen


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