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Re: perl unicode support

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 06:56:05PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote:
> > > > 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.

Indeed, that would be good to clarify.

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

Not if it was all converted at load-time.

Rich

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