Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-02 Thread Simon Cozens
[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?)

Re: [RFC] Perl6 Operator List, Take 5

2002-11-02 Thread Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Damian Conway wrote: Larry mused: Of course, Real Mathematicians will want [1..10) and (1..10] instead. Forgive me but is this syntax really necessary. Does it buy us enough over +1 and -1? And for what it's worth, Real Mathematicians do not use open intervals for

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-02 Thread Markus Laire
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

Re: [RFC] Perl Operator List, TAKE 6

2002-11-02 Thread Luke Palmer
Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 01:15:05 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.12, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ Michael Lazzaro writes: magical whitespace modifier: _ - When used at the

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-02 Thread Luke Palmer
From: Markus Laire [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2002 14:44:39 +0200 On 2 Nov 2002 at 0:06, Simon Cozens wrote: 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,

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-02 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:07:34AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: I do most of my work over an ssh connection to my favorite server, through gnome-terminal. gnome-terminal does not support unicode, so this whole thread has been filled with ?'s and \251's. I can't see a thing... gnome-terminal

Re: [RFC] Perl Operator List, TAKE 6

2002-11-02 Thread fearcadi
Luke Palmer writes: What _are_ you talking about. IIRC, there were never any plans for such a placeholder. There were the placeholder _variables_, $^x et al., but the underscore was never used for such a thing. That could be why I've been so confused by some of your examples. i

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-02 Thread David Wheeler
On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 04:06 PM, Simon Cozens wrote: 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

Re: vectorization (union and intersection operators)

2002-11-02 Thread Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Ed Peschko wrote: I'm probably opening up a whole new can of worms here, but if we said that the following were both vector operators: ^ == intersection operator v == union operator then these could have potentially useful meanings on their *own* as set

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:06:07AM +, Simon Cozens wrote: 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

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-02 Thread Matthew Zimmerman
On 2002.11.01 19:06 Simon Cozens wrote: 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