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From:
Dr.Ruud
Date:
April 4, 2007 12:33
Subject:
Re: perl, the data, and the tf8 flag
Message ID:
20070404193338.4032.qmail@lists.develooper.com
Glenn Linderman schreef:

> the only two character sets that
> perl really supports with semantics are ASCII and Unicode.

There is much truth in there, but ASCII is 7-bit.


> I'd recommend updating this documentation to say:
>[...]
>     A   A byte-wide string with arbitrary binary data, will
>         be space padded.

Is that ASCII-space (0x20) or can it be locale or EBCDIC-space (0x40)
too?

-- 
Affijn, Ruud

"Gewoon is een tijger."
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