On 28/12/2015 01:01, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > But that is exactly how symbols are exported (assuming you mean * > rather than *). Normalization for hash access (which is how we would > have to do this), even if it is limited to stashes, would be an effic- > iency nightmare. P.S.: This e-mail is in utf-8 encoding, but lynx does > not know how to add an encoding header, so the text may appear scrambled. Ok I got scrambled text, so I'll try and make the best of this. I was hoping that we could do the normalisation on insert into the stash. So that the stash it's self was normalised. This would make it a compile time operation, or one hit for each symbol you are exporting. I don't know enough of the Perl internals as to why this would have to be on access rather than insert. JohnThread Previous | Thread Next