2008/5/20 Glenn Linderman <perl@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? Not really. That's an RFC. It's just that I imagine some people would like it. That last proposal is not here to fix something, but to add conveniency. It might help XS writers too: if we get a "UnicodeSVPV" (in bytes or in utf-8, that's orthogonal), and feed it to a C char* function that expects a GIF image or something, then we know something is wrong in the calling and we can throw an exception.