Re: perl unicode support

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

???????? wrote:
> ...
> When I first saw the utf-8 encoding description, it was an epiphany of sorts.

Yes, it does have some nice characteristics.


> 
> > > 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?
> 
> Excellent example. Email is absolutely something that you can work
> with on a byte-by-byte basis and have no need for considering
> characters. 

What operations are you excluding when you say "work with?"  You're
being quite non-specific.  Maybe that's part of the cause of our
arguing.

Certainly searching for a given character string across multiple
MIME parts requires handling different encodings for different parts.

And searching with a regular expression containing "." to match any
character requires some encoding-cognizant processing somewhere in
the processing path (either in decoding byte sequences to character
sequences, or in implementing the regular-expression matching if it
operates directly on, say, UTF-8).



Daniel
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