On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:54:25PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 05:50 PM 9/26/00 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >At 02:14 PM 9/26/00 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:
> >>But the point of an I/O discipline is to convert to/from
> >>UTF-8, perl's internal form. If you want to write a
> >>shift-JIS to big5 converter, do
> >
> >UTF-8 may not be perl's internal form. Depending on what Larry's looking
> >at, perl might not *have* a canonical internal form for character data...
>
> D'oh! Sorry, wring mailing list. I was thinking this came in on one of the
> perl 6 lists....
Well, let's go over here, then. I just submitted an RFC for internal string
abstraction, which may or may not be the same thing as what you were just
talking about.
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