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Marc Lehmann skribis 2007-03-31 2:29 (+0200): > > Unicode is a character set, not a character encoding. > As is latin1. For all intents and purposes, latin1 is a character encoding as well as a character set. If not officially, then certainly for Perl. It can be used with the :encoding layer, with Encode'decode, etcetera. "Unicode" cannot. I don't know where your terminology comes from, but I try to stick to whatever is common in Perl land. Sorry if that differs from other communities. > > Unicode is a superset of the latin1 character set, not the latin1 > > character encoding. We'd need bigger bytes for the latter :) > Right. And Perl has those bigger bytes. A byte, in Perl jargon at least, is an octet. An octet can hold any single value in the rande 0..255, and is exactly 8 bits in size. Every byte is exactly as large as any other byte. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <juerd@juerd.nl> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <sales@convolution.nl> Ik vertrouw stemcomputers niet. Zie <http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/>.Thread Previous | Thread Next