"AJK" == Andreas J Koenig <andreas(_dot_)koenig(_at_)anima(_dot_)de>
writes:
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 20:49:29 -0400, Chip Salzenberg
<chip(_at_)perlsupport(_dot_)com> said:
According to Andreas J. Koenig:
However: *Yes*, UTF-8 is independent of Unicode.
AJK> So there we are. For those who want to have Unicode support but whose
AJK> character sets are discriminated by UTF8, an alternative might make
AJK> sense. I'm not asking for it, I just wanted to point out that there is
AJK> a point in considering other encodings too.
My current impression of the utf8 support
is that utf8 == Unicode. (Look at the \p{} support thrown in by
use utf8.)
This should be split out.
use Unicode; # Get the unicode attributes
use utf8; # Character encoding format
Then perhaps the far eastern folks can have their cake and eat it.
<chaim>
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