perl-unicode

Re: utf8_heavy noise

2003-06-23 03:30:04
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> writes:
use utf8;
if ( $] >= 5.007 ) {
     binmode (STDOUT, ":utf8");
}


It would be nice if "use utf8" set IO modes for utf8 automagically.
Perhaps a pragma could be passed such as:  use utf8 ':all'  (or something),
that set everything to utf8 that is settable.

And fixing that in Perl 5.8.1 would help Perl 5.8.0 how? :-)

But more seriously, the "use utf8" is "an evolutionary dead end".
The only thing it means these days is "my script is in UTF-8".

And even that is a potential dead-end - scripts in other encodings
don't have a unique pragma so why does UTF-8 ?


For "all the other" things, I think there can't ever be a consensus
for "all those things", since there are so many of such things.
Better be very explicit about the things you want to "UTF-8-ize".

cheers,

/Daniel
-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons
http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/

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