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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
June 29, 2020 23:09
Subject:
Re: Announcing Perl 7
Message ID:
CALJW-qESJ=rzqtJGbuNBnL0SKKXz1tFL-vjuDtH7Rpc07ABvSQ@mail.gmail.com
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 12:46 PM Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote:

> unicode_strings causes a specific set of functions in that lexical scope
> to use Unicode rules when determining how they interact with a string,
> instead of possibly using ASCII rules if the string is downgraded as the
> previous heuristic did.
>

Or put otherwise, it simply fixes a handful of builtin functions that
otherwise suffer from The Unicode Bug (behave differently depending on the
internal storage format of the their input).

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