Re: Unicode handling

[Nicholas Clark]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:08:35PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> I'm half tempted, since this is a Unicode-only feature, to use a non-ASCII 
> character.
> 
> \SMILEY FACE, perhaps?

that makes it kind of hard to edit perl scripts that use this feature on
any good old fashioned 8 bit xterm.
Let alone some crufty 7 bit serial login.
I think it would be a bad thing to effectively mandate that to use certain
features you had to use a Unicode aware editing system

Nicholas Clark