Why are you pointing to the unicode entry doc in an ancient version of Perl? Also according to perlunifaq the minumum version you should be using is 5.8.1 whic

Why are you pointing to the unicode entry doc in an ancient version of Perl? Also according to perlunifaq the minumum version you should be using is 5.8.1 which the documents for 5.8.0 would of course not mention. Really if you want good unicode handling you should probably use 5.16.0 or later. If you want the latest version of Unicode there are ways of changing which version of Unicode Perl is compiled with, but it is easier to just use the latest version of Perl, which is 5.20. http://perldoc.perl.org/perluniintro.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perluniintro.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunitut.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunitut.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunifaq.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunifaq.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode.html p.s. I noticed in the Python talk you linked that no one knew that the pile of poo symbol is in there because the japanese characters for luck and poo are very similar. ( I am unable to find a link to where I first read this ) The Japanese are also responsible for why we call them emoji (e means image, and moji means character. ) http://www.fastcompany.com/3037803/the-oral-history-of-the-poop-emoji-or-how-google-brought-poop-to-america http://www.fastcompany.com/3037803/the-oral-history-of-the-p...