Re: [EXPERIMENTAL] 1st draft of Encode

On 12 Sep 2000, at 11:57, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

> I would go for UCS-2 (UTF-16) as soon as possible as the preferred
> internal encoding. 
You know, of course, that UCS-2 ne UTF-16 (specifically, surrogates). 
What's Perl's take on characters where ord($c) > 0xffff, anyway? 
(These two issues intertwine, since if you use UTF-16, and hence 
surrogates, it's natural to expect support for characters up to [I think] 
0x10ffff, while if you just use UCS-2, you're restricted to 0xffff.)

Cheers,
Philip