perl-unicode

Re: Unicode aware module

1999-06-17 14:38:54
On Thu, Jun 17, 1999 at 10:00:53AM +0100, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
Moreover, all that not marking "wide" strings as such does is it moves
the responsibility of bookkeeping to the user side.

Which is _only_ place that knows. Consider a JPEG image embeded in 
say a XML page of text in an Indian script. Mostly UTF8 but between 
these tags it is binary.

Are you absolutely sure?  If the embedded part is not UTF-8 encoded,
how can the XML parser determine where the embedded area ends?

Ilya

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