Re: Unicode handling

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:07 PM 3/23/2001 -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
>Jarkko Hietaniemi writes:
>: *cough* \C *is* taken.
>:
>: > >also \U has a meaning in double quotish strings.
>:
>: "\Uindeed."
>
>Bear in mind we are redesigning the language.  If there's a botch we
>can think about fixing it.
>
>Though maybe not on -internals...   :-)

Good point. It's enough for us to say the regex engine will do glyph breaks 
and glyph instead of character semantics. We can pass on the language-level 
bits to someone else. (I hear we have someone doing that language thing... :)

                                        Dan

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