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A perl script is probably written in a particular language, probably for
users of that language, possibly for users of a second language. Unless
there are lots of I18N type features added into Perl to allow extracting
all string constants
Glenn Linderman wrote:
Stick with characters in the normal character set of the author of the
script, except for forays into the language of the users of the script.
Good advice for the programmer, perhaps; but it should not be perl's
job to enforce that discipline.
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John Porter
John Porter wrote:
Glenn Linderman wrote:
Stick with characters in the normal character set of the author of the
script, except for forays into the language of the users of the script.
Good advice for the programmer, perhaps; but it should not be perl's
job to enforce that discipline.
