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From:
Glenn Linderman
Date:
May 20, 2008 15:14
Subject:
Re: on broken manpages, trolling, inconsistent implementation andthe difficulty to fix bugs
Message ID:
48334D30.2090308@NevCal.com
On approximately 5/20/2008 8:01 AM, came the following characters from 
the keyboard of Juerd Waalboer:

>> 3. We use the name of an encoding of Unicode as the name of for the
>> encoding of a string causing confusion.
> 
> Indeed. Maybe it would be wise to start calling the internal
> representation SvUTF8 encoding, rather than UTF8 encoding. Or maybe a
> wholly different name.

One massive search and replace through the new Git repository could give 
us a new name... and since the encoding is only somewhat compatible with 
UTF-8 encoding (Perl extends it), a different name would help make that 
clearer also.

SvBlorf :)

We'd need to retain

#define SvUTF8 SvBlorf

for XS compatibility.

-- 
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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