On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:19:37 PDT Glenn Linderman <perl@NevCal.com> wrote, replying to Karl: > Tom did point out two inconsistencies with octal values of 0777 > below, and I suspect there will still be people that have > latent bugs due to thinking like Tom did, that \400 should > maybe be two characters, or might yet produce unexpected > behaviors when coding \400 - \777 accidentally, and not > understanding why their string suddenly has the UTF-8 bit set! >> Maybe we should let some others weigh in on the matter. > I waited two days, and no one else has weighed in... it would > be nice if several additional opinions could be obtained. Indeed. I, too, have been waiting. --tomThread Previous | Thread Next