On 30 Oct 2002, Simon Cozens wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Mitchell) writes: : > (I'm thinking utf8 here). : : I'd strongly advise against that.
Actually, it works out rather well in practice, because the string abstraction in Perl is that of a sequence of codepoints. But at least in Perl 5, as long as your codepoints don't get above 255, it can still all be done with good old byte-ops. Larry
