Re: Unicode handling

[Damien Neil]

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.

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.

                         - Damien