I'm not a Unicode expert but I suspect the answer is buried in Ricardo's recent Perl Conference talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmTeXcEixEg Best Regards, Jed On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Alexander Karelas <ak...@zoo.gr> wrote: > I'm the author of XML::MyXML, a module that parses & produces XML > documents, and I have a dilemma: > > Should the module produce XML documents as byte strings, or as character > strings (i.e. with perl's internal format)? > > The same question applies to parsing: should the XML documents that the > module parses be byte strings or character strings? > > I'm examining use cases, to weigh the pro & cons of each option: > > 1) Mojolicious and other web frameworks expect strings passed to the > browser to be character strings > > 2) AnyEvent network server sends byte strings to its users > > 3) The JSON module, if it serves as an example, lets you choose whether to > encode or not, but its encode_json function produces byte strings. > > Do you have any other use cases? Do you have a preference? What do you > think I should do? > > The module's current behaviour is to produce byte strings, but one person > I know said he prefers character strings. > > I guess I should place an option to let the user choose, but should I > change the default to character strings? > > What are your opinions? > > Thanks, >
