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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
January 12, 2012 07:53
Subject:
Re: pack and ASCII
Message ID:
CALJW-qGJgtzOCAE_K+Ax=2FzV3gMhtPmng-oFsQ2hqYYg-tQgw@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:28 AM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 January 2012 00:00, Eric Brine <ikegami@adaelis.com> wrote:
> > It has always* been documented to work on ASCII text.
> > It has never* been limited to ASCII characters.
> > It has never* been documented to work on bytes.
> >
> > * -- To my knowledge.
>
> Well pack predates Perl supporting Unicode at all, so in a sense you
> are wrong here.
>

Which statement do you think was wrong before Perl supported "Unicode"?

C<< pack "A" >> supported 8-bit chars even back then!

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