Re: RFC: Foreign objects in perl

[Simon Cozens]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:50:56PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote:
> No, that's the beauty of utf8: the C datatype is still char* and as long
> as you stick to 7-bits ASCII you won't know the difference...

... other than the fact that it's painfully slow to handle. (Wow, middle of a
character! Where am I? Aaargh...)

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