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Re: perl unicode support

Rich Felker wrote:
> 

> For example, the unix "cut" program works automatically with UTF-8
> text as long as the delimiter is a single byte, and if you want
> multibyte delimiters, all you need to do is make it accept a multibyte
> delimeter character and then do a substring search instead of a byte
> search. There is no need to ever treat the input string as characters,
> and in fact doing so just makes it slow and bloated.

cut -c2-3 ...



Daniel 
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