Chas. Owens schrieb:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:55 AM Paul Johnson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:23:19AM -0400, Chas. Owens wrote:
snip
> Also, this answer on StackOverflow by tchrist (Tom Christiansen, who I
> would say knows the most about the intersection of Perl and Unicode)
> is a good resource: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129/78259
Quite. And utf8::all tries to encapsulate as much of that boilerplate
as it can.
I have always read that answer as a bit of an indictment of the idea of "you should
be able to load this module and everything will be fine". Unicode is complex and
trying to treat it like just another list of characters is doomed to teeth gnashing and
crying. Of course, even treating it the way it should be leads to teeth gnashing and
crying, but at least that will be over the fact the humans suck (we can't even agree on
where þ should be sorted) as opposed to Perl sucking.
When I have something like
print $cgi->p('Gebäudefläche:');
in my source, which is correctly displayed everywhere else, I also
need it correctly displayed in the web browser --- even particularly
there because that is what the users are looking at.
And that´s all there is to it. It´s really that simple.
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