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Also worth a read http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129 http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129 (Perl and Unicode and why it's really hard)
by chokma 15y ago
Also worth a read http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129 http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129 (Perl and Unicode and why it's really hard)
- Joeri 15y agoOuch. And here I thought PHP made it needlessly complicated to use UTF-8: http://malevolent.com/weblog/archive/2007/03/12/unicode-utf8-php-mysql/ http://malevolent.com/weblog/archive/2007/03/12/unicode-utf8...
- Tobu 15y agoPerl actually has one of the best Unicode supports (second only to ICU). This guy worked on it, so he's listing all the edge cases (bulk of the post), explaining how to get rid of backward-compatible brokenness (and maybe Perl needs a quicker way to saner defaults), and explaining how to do work that requires explicit handling.