On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 02:44:39PM +0200, Markus Laire wrote: > On 2 Nov 2002 at 0:06, Simon Cozens wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Zimmerman) writes: > > > Larry has been consistently using > > > > > > OxAB op 0xBB > > > > > > in his messages to represent a (French quote) hyperop, > > > (corresponding to the Unicode characters 0x00AB and 0x00BB) > > > > More and more conversations like this, (and how many have we seen here > > already?) about characters sets, encodings, mail quoting issues, in > > fact, anything other than Perl, will be rife on every Perl-related > > mailing list if we persist with this idiotic idea of having Unicode > > operators. > > It may seem idiotic to the egocentric people who only needs chars a-z > in his language. But for all others (think about Chinese), Unicode is > real asset.
I don't think Simon is disputing the value of Unicode. I suspect that he probably has more cause to use and definitely understands it better than the vast majority of Perl programmers, for whom seven bits is ample. I live in Switzerland and regularly deal with three languages which have various diacritics and special characters. Personally, I would be very happy with Unicode operators, but I fear that Simon's prediction would be accurate and I would much rather spend my time evangelising the virtues of Perl 6 as a language than trying to fathom or explain the incantations required to program on various platforms with a backdrop of unfamiliar, buggy or non-existent Unicode support. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
