Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Taiwanese read traditional chinese characters, but PRC people read
>> simplied chinese. Even we take the same data, and same program (code),
>> people just read differently. As an end user, I want to make the decision.
>> It will drive me crazy if Perl render/display the text file using
>> traditional
>> chinese just because it was tagged as "Big5".
>
>Perl will (probably, whispers he, crossing his fingers) never
>translate data that far. Perl (5) does not "display" chr(0x1234) to
>me using Unicode fonts, it just pushes the octets to a file
>descriptor/handle. Unicode is language-neutral.
Perl may not, but I assume someone will be fool enough to give it a GUI.
perl5.7.1+/Tk803.???-to-be will now make a stab at rendering Unicode
(not a very good one I am the 1st to admit which is why it isn't released!).
It would be good if Tk-for-perl6 did not have to break the rules or
provide its own hooks for meta data and could use "the" string API.
--
Nick Ing-Simmons
http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/
