Re: Perl Unicode support

[Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:16:35PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:

> But it doesn’t work the other way around. I’ve tried pasting from an
> app respecting locale (UTF-8) into rxvt (with its head stuck in the
> Latin-1 sand, no not urxvt) and the bytes of the UTF-8 get interpreted
> as Latin-1 characters. :)
> 
> It should work, but Latin-1-oriented apps are usually dumb enough that
> it doesn’t...

In this case it's a perfect reason not to use rxvt. (Actually its lack of
UTF-8 support _is_ the real reason :-)))

Of course I didn't mean there are no dumb applications... You should rather
try a good application that just happens to run under a latin1 locale.


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