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Re: Windows Support [Was: Re: Announcing Perl 7]

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From:
Christian Walde
Date:
June 28, 2020 21:52
Subject:
Re: Windows Support [Was: Re: Announcing Perl 7]
Message ID:
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 23:20:26 +0200, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 7:24 PM Christian Walde
> <walde.christian@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:57:39 +0200, John Lightsey <john@nixnuts.net> wrote:
>>
>> > I'd love to see Perl 8 fix [...] Windows support.
>>
>> 2 things here:
>>
>> 1. Please don't phrase it in a way that implies Perl doesn't support windows. I've been developing Perl on windows for over a decade and it works.
>>
>> 2. Out of curiosity, what specific points do you care about here?
>
> Unicode filesystem support?

It would be a nice improvement to have that out of the box instead of needing to use CPAN modules for it. Good reminder.

-- 
With regards,
Christian Walde

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