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Re^13: Seeking Perl docs about how UTF8 flag propagates (Terminology)by LanX (Saint) |
on May 18, 2023 at 22:11 UTC ( [id://11152290]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
> This is not what I was expecting when you gave it a gold star. Well your stars are more golden than mine. Seriously, it says 32bits or more° and I don't care that much as long as Perl and Unicode aren't expanded to cover all scripts of the galaxy. And I cringe about calling a byte a character. A string - as a sequence of bytes˛ - can hold any kind of packed data which fits into memory. Like eg JPG. Perl has also plenty of string operators which don't assume text. BUT ... "from all docs I skimmed thru yet" ... it's the best in having an axiomatic build up with clarifying the terminology first. And as I said "taking the style as starting point."
Cheers Rolf °) "...range 0 .. 2**32-1 (or more)" ˛) the idea seems to be to define a "logical" character as the sub-units of strings as returned by split // or 'length'. That's unfortunate wording IMHO.
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