Andreas et al,
Please see my comments below.
From: andreas(_dot_)koenig(_at_)anima(_dot_)de (Andreas J. Koenig)
To: "Dinesh Kristenson" <dinkrist(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>
CC: perl-unicode(_at_)perl(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Questions about Unicode Support in 5.6.1
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:01:16 +0200
>>>>> On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:09:33 -0400, "Dinesh Kristenson"
<dinkrist(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com> said:
> I'd appreciate what light you could shed on the following:
> 1. How does the Unicode support in 5.6.1 differ from that in 5.6? (I
> believe some 5.6 unicode features did not work - and were removed in
> 5.6.1)
There's no principal difference how Unicode works in the two versions,
"only" a considerable amount of bugfixing has happened.
> 2. How far short of full Unicode compliance/support is 5.6.1?
Not applicable. Unicode support was quite "full" but different than
today. Unicode support has changed fundamentally since then.
Do you mean that the Unicode Standard has moved on from what it was when
5.6.1 was released?
What version of Unicode did 5.6.1 support?
What version of Unicode will 5.8.0 support?
> 3. In which areas is Perl 5.6.1's Unicode support deficient?
It's based on a model of operators within the scope of the utf8
pragma, wheras 5.8.0 will have a model attached to each scalar.
Do you mean that the utf8 pragma will no longer be required in ANY context?
> 4. Presumably the next stable release of Perl is 5.7 (or 5.6.2) ??
5.8.0 will be the next. The 5.7.x series is a developer cycle.
> 5. Will that release provide _full_ Unicode support - or will there
> still be some gaps?
Very good Unicode support, but certainly there will be some bugs left
in.
> 6. When is this release expected?
Every day now. There are already two prereleases available in Jarkko
Hietaniemi's CPAN directory authors/id/J/JH/JHI/. Please start playing
with it as soon as possible. The sooner Unicode-interested people are
trying their code with it, the sooner we can squash the remaining bugs
and the documentation will become better too.
--
andreas
Thanks again,
Din K.
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