At 17:29 -0300 29/9/11, Brian Fraser wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 4:03 PM, John Delacour <johndelac...@gmail.com> wrote:
Nitpick: Why the upper-case charset name?
Uppercase is UTF-8-strict, while lowercase is the lax version that
perl uses internally. Unless you are passing data from one perl
program to another, and you are using illegal-UTF8-but-legal-UTFX
(like if you define your own new characters beyond 10FFFF, which
Perl allows but strict UTF-8 shouldn't), there's basically no good
reason to use the lax version.
Right. Thank you for the explanation. Perl has so affected my
thinking that I'd forgotten that RFC 3629 names it upper case 'UTF-8'.
But if you include 'qw< :std :encoding(utf-8) >', is that not also
using encoding?
...The :encoding() part actually refers to a layer provided by a
module, not the encoding pragma.
Gotcha.
Yeah, it's a mess. :)
Yes, but thank goodness for Dan Kogai et al. I'd sooner have them
sort it out than do it myself!
JD
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