> I'd say lets make charnames behave at least like utf8: > $ perl -wlE'say utf8::is_utf8("\x{20ac}")' > 1 > See, no use and still available. If \N{} autoloads charnames (and I am > fully in favor), so should charnames::viacode > One more reason for doing so is that charnames cannot be backported and > is not available on CPAN. It is very tightly coupled to the current core That does seem a strong argument in support of the idea. --tomThread Previous | Thread Next