On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Perl will, presumably, know how to go from A to B, and deal with that. If
> you do something that wants UTF8 and your scalar's got EBCDIC data in it,
> then perl will do the conversion on the fly.
I'm more worried that perl might mistakenly *think* the scalar's got
EBCDIC when, in fact, it's just random binary data. I want to be sure
there's a way to tell perl "hands off".
> I expect that Larry'll get it right.
Yes, I agree. From Larry's previous comments on 'use bytes' over the past
year or so, it seems quite clear to me that he's got a good sense of
the issues.
> I also want it really easy to not have
> to bother, since my data sources are all plain ASCII too.
I'm not worried on that score. If whatever path we choose ends up with a
perl6 candidate that's big, slow, and inefficient for regular old text
processing, I have no doubt we'll throw it away and try again.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
