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Re: perl, the data, and the tf8 flag

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From:
Dr.Ruud
Date:
April 4, 2007 03:20
Subject:
Re: perl, the data, and the tf8 flag
Message ID:
20070404101956.26937.qmail@lists.develooper.com
Juerd Waalboer schreef:

> Perl doesn't have an ascii/utf8
> distinction, it has a latin1/utf8 distinction.


In Perl 5.8.6, the documentation of the function pack contains:

    A   A text (ASCII) string, will be space padded. 

Maybe that should then read 

    A   A textual octet string (latin1), will be space padded. 

-- 
Affijn, Ruud

"Gewoon is een tijger."
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