Re: Unicode handling

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:56 AM 3/23/2001 -0800, Damien Neil wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:38:04PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >    while (<IN>) {
> >          $count++ if /bar/;
> >          print OUT $_;
> >    }
>
>I would find it surprising for this to have different output
>than input.  Other people's milage may vary.

I can understand that.

>In general, however, I think I would prefer to be required to
>explicitly normalize my data (via a function, pragma, or option
>set on a filehandle) than have data change unexpectedly behind
>my back.

But since the data is equivalent, and more importantly Unicode, it's not 
supposed to matter to you. Whether it *does* or not is a separate 
question... :)

                                        Dan

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