Re: The internal string API

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

> Taiwanese read traditional chinese characters, but PRC people read
> simplied chinese. Even we take the same data, and same program (code),
> people just read differently. As an end user, I want to make the decision.
> It will drive me crazy if Perl render/display the text file using
> traditional
> chinese just because it was tagged as "Big5".

Perl will (probably, whispers he, crossing his fingers) never
translate data that far.  Perl (5) does not "display" chr(0x1234) to
me using Unicode fonts, it just pushes the octets to a file
descriptor/handle.  Unicode is language-neutral.

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