> What I don't believe in is running off for two years to try and cut a
> branch of catalyst with 'perfect' unicode in it and then try to dump it on
> the community all at once (and likely fail due to compatibility issues).  I
> don't believe that will work.  So lets start a conversation about unicode
> in Catalyst, and what are the use cases we need for this to be great.
>  Evan, since you seem to have some experience with this, I'd love your
> thoughts.
>

Perl's Unicode handling has never been clearly understood by me but I just
go along with the flow. Sometimes I find myself marking strings as Unicode.
Sometimes I find myself re-encoding things from Unicode to Unicode. And,
sometimes I find myself validating that what Perl thinks is Unicode is
really what other less liberal Unicode implementations will accept.

I can say this, in any conceivable case where compromise in /support/ of
non-Unicode results in more difficulty for Unicode use, I'll take the
former.

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Evan Carroll - [email protected]
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