On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:55 AM Paul Johnson <p...@pjcj.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:23:19AM -0400, Chas. Owens wrote:
snip > > Also, this answer on StackOverflow by tchrist (Tom Christiansen, who I > > would say knows the most about the intersection of Perl and Unicode) > > is a good resource: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129/78259 > > Quite. And utf8::all tries to encapsulate as much of that boilerplate > as it can. > I have always read that answer as a bit of an indictment of the idea of "you should be able to load this module and everything will be fine". Unicode is complex and trying to treat it like just another list of characters is doomed to teeth gnashing and crying. Of course, even treating it the way it should be leads to teeth gnashing and crying, but at least that will be over the fact the humans suck (we can't even agree on where รพ should be sorted) as opposed to Perl sucking.
