RE: [ID 20020130.001] Unicode broken for 0x10FFFF

2002-01-30 Thread Brent Dax
Larry Wall: # For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer # abstraction, and some of which relate to "infinite" strings # and arrays, # I think Perl 6 strings are likely to be represented by a list of # chunks, where each chunk is a sequence of integers of the same size or

Re: [ID 20020130.001] Unicode broken for 0x10FFFF

2002-01-30 Thread Larry Wall
Jarkko Hietaniemi writes: : > What I notice, though, is that the current code does not warn for : > characters beyond 0x10, which is definitely a bug. : : Ahh, it's all coming back now... warning about such characters : causes pain in the complementing tr///... have to look at this later. I