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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>wrote: > * karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> [2010-07-12 19:35]: > > \x without the braces is only for 'narrow' or 'short' > > characters. I'm not sure which would be the better term. 'wide' > > and 'long' are used variously in other pods. > > Perl itself says “wide characters”, as does the rest of the world > when speaking about encodings like UTF-8, which are called > “variable width” to boot. > > The opposite of “wide” is “narrow”. > "single-byte" is the expression with which I am familiar. Well, other than MS's "ANSI", but I wouldn't use that here! - Eric BrineThread Previous | Thread Next