Re: Announce: Perl, Unicode and I18N FAQ

1999-12-17 Thread Larry Wall
First, Q8 seems to have moved down to between Q10 and Q11 for some reason. : Unicode is stored as UTF-8 in Perl for 2 reasons: : : 1.UTF-8 is more compact for Western European languages than UTF-16, :because non-accented characters only require 1 byte in UTF-8. : : 2.Perl is written in C.

Re: Announce: Perl, Unicode and I18N FAQ

1999-12-17 Thread Peter Prymmer
James Briggs wrote, > Guys: > > Please review this FAQ and reply with your comments. > > Happy Holidays, > > James. > > http://rf.net/~james/perli18n.html Here are some suggestions in the form of a uni-diff patch (note that I've introduced some line breaks). BTW, I think there was a perli1

Announce: Perl, Unicode and I18N FAQ

1999-12-17 Thread James Briggs
Guys: Please review this FAQ and reply with your comments. Happy Holidays, James. http://rf.net/~james/perli18n.html