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Bo Lindbergh
Date:
October 28, 2008 05:38
Subject:
Re: PATCH [perl #59342] chr(0400) =~ /\400/ fails for >= 400
Message ID:
20081028123842.16406.qmail@lists.develooper.com
In article <49063069.8090001@NevCal.com>, perl@NevCal.com (Glenn Linderman) 
wrote:
> I rather expect that the primary use of 9 bit byte values would have 
> been to initialize bytes to binary values, rather than deal in 
> characters: I've never seen any character encodings that speak of 9-bit 
> character values, until I just found http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4042 
> via a Google search.

Did you notice the release date of that RFC?


/Bo Lindbergh
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