According to Andreas J. Koenig:
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On Thu, 27 May 1999 15:55:39 -0400, Chip Salzenberg
<chip(_at_)perlsupport(_dot_)com> said:
> I don't see a use for anything other than UTF-8. UTF-8 allows the
> encoding of huge character codes (up to 40-some bits), so unless you
> know of a need for more-than-40-some-bits per character, UTF-8 is
> plenty.
FWI, UTF-8 is Latin-centric and not so much liked in Eastern countries
because it is byte-bloat compared to native encodings.
Well, that depends on whether you assume Unicode or not. If you don't
assume Unicode, you can C<use locale> and go to town.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip(_at_)perlsupport(_dot_)com>
"When do you work?" "Whenever I'm not busy."
