perl-unicode

Re: Encode.pm question

2003-05-17 02:30:05
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 12:23:10AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:
Okay, at least Mark "No-One" REED, at least we have a UTF-7 user here.  
But just for curiosity's sake, what do you use it for?

To add the ability to send non-ASCII characters through an unfrozen
caveman chat protocol that strips the high bits off of everything.
Messages are also limited to 255 bytes, so a low-expansion encoding
is called-for.  QP- or Base64-encoded UTF-8 or SCSU is too bulky.

An upgrade to the protocol which allows 8-bit characters is in the
works, but who knows how long that will take. :)

-Mark