On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 04:41:05PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > If PGE is always outputting UTF-8 literals, what stops it from always > > prefixing every literal "unicode:", even if it only uses Unicode characters > > 0 to 127? > [...] > Also, once introduced unicode strings tend can easily spread > throughout the system, since an operation (e.g., concat) involving > a UTF-8 string and an ASCII string produces a UTF-8 result > even if all of the codepoints of the string value are in the > ASCII range.
Oops, I just rechecked and this no longer seems to be the case. Or maybe it only happens in certain situations. However, my other points about the problem of using 'unicode:' on systems w/o ICU still stands. :-) Pm
