On Sat, 13 Apr 2002, Tom Hughes wrote: # Well that is what perl 5 does certainly. cool I didnt know that! (I've never pondered perl5 internals)
# decided not to do that in perl 6 though due to issues about what # it meant to nul terminate in various different character sets. # We can't assume that US-ASCII will be native everywhere though as # some platforms may use some form of unicode as the native character # set (and accept unicode arguments to systems calls). Anyone know how the boys @bell-labs are doing this in plan9? to my knowledge it is the only ground up unicode using system. On that note I think we need to get a plan9 box together to build on. I will write a letter requesting an account to use for parrot dev (however, being a non-degree holding 24 year old hack, I might not get too far :) I'll try regardless because I feel that it is an ideal place to work on utf-8/unicode issues. Anyone else have any ideas? Roman
