--- Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Austin Hastings wrote in perl.perl6.language : > > > > What we've got is an encoding problem at the MUA level. Mark Reed > says > > my mailer (Yahoo!) tagged a message containing high-bit characters > as > > US-ASCII. Several people the other day reported on the differences > in > > UTF8 vs. Latin-1 handling among pine, elm, and other mailers. > > Not only the MUA level. Usually source code is written in a lowest > common denominator of ascii, even for languages that allow unicode > identifiers (Java) or markup. That's because source code is handled > by > parsers, documentation extractors, pretty printers, diff(1), > patch(1), > version control software, and (you said it) various internet clients.
> That's why some people may still prefer to continue using pure ascii > even though then think that unicode operators are cool. (Esp. if they > are under the influence of FUD : "use PHP ! it's ascii compliant !") Yeah, but ActiveState does Perl, and Microsoft owns ActiveState, so we've got the kings of FUD on our side for a change. Joy. > > Perl6 will do more to address the real technical issues of > electronic > > communication between Americans and French-speakers than anything > else. > > (Primarily because Perl hackers want to talk to each other, but no > > French-speaker wants to talk to an American ;-) > > You're Italian, aren't you ? Actually, an American who's been ignored in many places. :-) =Austin __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
