On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 12:16:38PM -0600, Earl Hood wrote:
> > > This is Bad Juju (tm). It _guarantees_ script breakage (potentially
> > > silently!) for Unix people doing _anything_ but ASCII text manipulation.
> >
> > I repeat: I don't think you can do "more than ASCII" by hanging tooth
> > an
On January 5, 2003 at 05:42, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > This is Bad Juju (tm). It _guarantees_ script breakage (potentially
> > silently!) for Unix people doing _anything_ but ASCII text manipulation.
>
> I repeat: I don't think you can do "more than ASCII" by hanging tooth
> and nail to the
> > or implicitly (locale) command them not be.
>
> Not fine without a warning. This is 'action at a distance' (this is the
> same reason un'local'ized usage of the 'special' variables is nearly
On that we can agree, kind of-- I find the *whole* locale system to be
a Bad Idea (tm) (not just any U
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> I repeat: all your filehandles are still 'binary' unless you either
> explicitly (binmode)
Fine.
> or implicitly (locale) command them not be.
Not fine without a warning. This is 'action at a distance' (this is the
same reason un'local'ized usage of
