On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:10:39PM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
> Someone's been busy...
I'm not finished yet.
> > C<no unicode> just throws everything. None of the above happens.
> What does "just throws everything" mean?
Oops, yes. I claimed I was going to thrash out the exact semantics of no
unicode here, and I didn't.
In "no unicode" mode:
* The default level 2 line discipline does nothing
* Data coming into Perl via "any other method" does not get converted to
UTF8
* \N{LONG NAME}, \x{0xF00} and vx.y.z cause fatal errors
(At this stage, it's impossible to get UTF8 data into Perl. It's like we're
back in 5.005_03)
* Comparisons occur byte-for-byte
* Sorting occurs in ASCII order
You should recognise this as Perl's pre-5.6 behaviour.
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