E R skribis 2007-10-31 17:29 (-0500): > I'm been thinking about this hypothetical question lately: could perl > ever switch its 'other' internal representation of strings from utf-8 > to utf-16?
It could (if people didn't rely on the internal encoding so much), but should it? > Anyone have any thoughts on this? I think the benefits aren't that big. UTF-16 is variable width, like UTF-8, and typically uses a lot more memory. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
