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* Brian Fraser <perlbug-followup@perl.org> [2013-03-26 01:50]:
> $_ = "\x{30cb}";
> use Devel::Peek;
> use bytes;
> Dump $_ for uc, lc, CORE::fc, ucfirst, lcfirst;
>
> ucfirst & lcfirst return a UTF-8 flagged scalar, while the first three
> return bytes.
Is it worth fixing something to follow a semantic that itself is broken
as designed?
I’m not sure if we had an explicit consensus about bytes.pm being highly
discouraged, the way we had about encoding.pm deserving deprecation, but
I would be happy if we could move it in that direction; and the farther,
the happier.
Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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