[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Laire) writes: > 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 often think about Chinese. Chinese is hard. But I think about Japanese a lot of the time, and without Unicode data processing in Japanese would be (was, in fact) a complete nightmare. But I was talking about the specific case of Perl operators, not Unicode in general. -- I'm surrounded by electromagnetic radiation all the time. There are radio stations broadcasting at lots of kW, other people using phones, the police, [...] the X-rays coming from my monitor, and God help us, the sun. I figure I have better things to worry about than getting cancer from the three or four minutes a day I spend on my cell phone. - Dave Brown.