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On Mar 30, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Juerd Waalboer wrote: > Perl does not have strong typing. If it is so deadly to collide byte-oriented data with character data, it should not be so easy to do so accidentally. >> Thats a broken unicode model > > So far, I've only seen a broken understanding of the unicode model, > and > a broken regex engine. That so many users, including those as expert as Marc, possess a "broken" understanding of Perl's Unicode model suggests a flawed design. We have been set up to fail. (My admiration for the Unicode integration effort remains undiminished by its flaws.) Marvin Humphrey Rectangular Research http://www.rectangular.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next