[perl #107008] UTF8 patches for 5.16

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Father Chrysostomos via RT

Date:

March 23, 2012 14:49

Subject:

[perl #107008] UTF8 patches for 5.16

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rt-3.6.HEAD-4610-1332539329-1602.107008-15-0@perl.org

Concerning 4b9fa9d371 (utf8.[ch]: Add a UNI_DISPLAY_FORMAT_UVX flag for
pv_display.) and 190301c569 (sv.c: Make S_not_a_number use
UNI_DISPLAY_FORMAT_UVX):

I don’t understand what we gain by using \x{ABC} instead of \x{abc}.  To
my eye, the latter looks better.  And I thought perl always used
lowercase for hex inside curly braces.  E.g.:

$ perl5.14.2 -we '() = "\x{abc}" + 1'
Argument "\x{abc}" isn't numeric in addition (+) at -e line 1.

The commit message for 4b says ‘the core (mainly) uses the uppercase
form’, but I haven’t see any examples of the uppercase form in curly
braces.  For U+FFFF syntax, uppercase is universal, so it makes sense
for perl to use that.  For \xAB syntax, \xab might look confusing, so
uppercase makes sense there.  But, again, I believe perl always uses
lowercase for \x{abc}, and its less loud than \x{ABC}, so I see no
reason to change it.

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Father Chrysostomos


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