Re: Unicode handling

[Dan Sugalski]

At 08:14 PM 3/23/2001 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>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

Point. Never mind--lots of folks with non-Unicode aware terminals and 
editors will be writing code that handles unicode data.

                                        Dan

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