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Re: Perl & unicode weirdness.

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:09:07PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> (To avoid confusion, we don't call our encoding UTF-8.  We tend to
> say UTF-8 when we mean UTF-8, and "utf8" when we mean the more general
> not-necessarily-Unicode encoding.

This is an insane way to make a distinction, just as silly as trying to
differentiate between "kilobits" and "kilobytes" with "kb" and "kB".
Changing hyphens and case doesn't make distinctions or avoid confusion.

-- 
Glenn Maynard

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