On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 12:57:27PM -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote: > Thanks. The Perl implementors and you have done a very good job. I have a > few suggestions and one complaint. > > The most important issue is chr(). > > >Note that C<chr(...)> for arguments less than 0x100 (decimal 256) will > >return an eight-bit character for backward compatibility with older > >Perls (in ISO 8859-1 platforms it can be argued to be producing > >Unicode even then, just not Unicode encoded in UTF-8 -- the ISO 8859-1 > >is equivalent to the first 256 characters of Unicode). For C<chr()> > >arguments of 0x100 or more, Unicode will always be produced. > > My complaint: There should be a pure Unicode alternative to this kludge. > Obviously, it is not hard to write one in Perl, but it should be part of the > implementation.
Note that for most of the time, the difference whether chr() generates ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8 encoded Unicode for the range 0x80..0xff shouldn't matter, since the upgrading of the 8-bit to UTF-8 is automatic. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
