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On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:00:37PM -0700, Marvin Humphrey <marvin@rectangular.com> wrote:
> >>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 "broken" understand bails down to users not having to know about the
internal UTF-X flag. If that is indeed wrong, then going back to the
explicit 5.005_5x model where you indeed had to track your encoding
manually is the right thing.
However, I claim it would a great loss. Back to the assembly programming
of unicode.
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