Re: perl unicode support

["Daniel B." <dsb@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> 
> 2007/3/28, Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > ...f you only handle _texts_ then
> > probably the best approach is to convert every string as soon as they arrive
> > at your application to some Unicode representation (UTF-8 for Perl, "String"
> > (which uses UTF-16) for Java and so on)
> 
> Hrm, I think Java needs to be fixed. Their internal utf-16 mandate was
> a mistake, imo.

Are you aware that Java was created (or frozen) when Unicode required
16 bits?  (It wasn't a mistake at the time.)


> Normally, you should not have to ever convert strings between
> encodings. 

Then how do you process, say, a multi-part MIME body that has parts
in different character encodings?  


> Its just
> not your problem, plus it indroces a ton of potential headaches.
> Just assume your input is in the encoding its supposed to be in.

You never deal with multiple inputs?

Daniel
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