Re: [EXPERIMENTAL] 1st draft of Encode

On 14 Sep 2000, at 12:35, Dominic Dunlop wrote:

> At 18:00 +0200 2000-09-13, Philip Newton wrote:
> > What's Perl's take on characters where ord($c) > 0xffff, anyway?
> It seems to Just Work, as this one-ish-liner shows:
[snip]

In that case, if we want to go switch internal encoding UTF-8, we 
need UTF-16 or UTF-32, not UCS-2, unless we're willing to lose this 
property.

Cheers,
Philip