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From:
Glenn Linderman
Date:
May 20, 2008 02:13
Subject:
Re: on the almost impossibility to write correct XS modules
Message ID:
48329610.5050905@NevCal.com
On approximately 5/20/2008 1:55 AM, came the following characters from 
the keyboard of Rafael Garcia-Suarez:

> But sometimes we want perl to magically switch between Unicode and
> non-Unicode semantics depending on the data it's handling. Does that
> mean that we need to add a new kind of data to perl, "Unicode SV" ?
> Will that solve problems ? What problems will this create ?


Could you elaborate on when such a magical switcharoo is desirable?


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