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This article is from 2006. Perl's unicode support is excellent now. In 2006 5.10 wasn't out yet, and anything before 5.8.5 had all sorts of odd unicode bugs.
by mst 13y ago
This article is from 2006.
Perl's unicode support is excellent now. In 2006 5.10 wasn't out yet, and anything before 5.8.5 had all sorts of odd unicode bugs.
Or: Tcl got there significantly before we did.
- fuzzix 13y agoThat is a fair point, but I'm not trying argue that Perl is somehow better. I am just using it as a reference point. I'm more suggesting the article may be overstating the ease-of-use / capabilities of Tcl. To be clear, I'm not arguing against using Tcl in favour of Perl or anything else. It's just that my experience with a language with great encoding support doesn't jive with what's claimed here.
- na85 13y agoWell I think that particular clause was written for C-style language users where the unicode support is definitely subpar.