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From:
Tomasz Konojacki
Date:
June 30, 2020 10:00
Subject:
Re: Announcing Perl 7
Message ID:
20200630120026.574B.5C4F47F8@xenu.pl
On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 11:48:16 +0200
Salvador Fandiño <sfandino@gmail.com> wrote:

> In the case of functions that interface with the external world it is not as easy as saying they should expect the data to be in the native Unicode encoding (i.e. UTF-8 or UTF-16), specially if that is going to be the default behavior in p7.

That is not what 'unicode_strings' does. It doesn't prevent you from
working on bytes.

Read this for more info: https://perldoc.pl/perlunicode#The-%22Unicode-Bug%22

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