Re^10: Converting Unicode

No, I don't think it's a stretch. It will happen in due time. Soon everyone will be working with UTF8 by default, or some near equivalent of it (utf8mb4?). I think it might already be the standard if it weren't resisted by those slow to adopt it.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

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Re^11: Converting Unicode by LanX (Saint) on Dec 05, 2023 at 00:21 UTC
> with UTF8 by default, or some near equivalent of it (utf8mb4?) And you are contradicting yourself by proposing two defaults at the same time. So 5 years from now on someone like you will complain the wrong one was chosen. Neither HTML nor table/db/schema encodings are part of the language and magically changing their settings/headers would not only require new modules and procedures. (Not sure if CGI.pm is even actively developed anymore.) It would also mean magically overriding the configs of the Web/DB servers. > I don't think it's a stretch Well, who else thinks like you? Which language does it like you propose? Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]

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Re^11: Converting Unicode
by LanX (Saint) on Dec 05, 2023 at 00:21 UTC

> with UTF8 by default, or some near equivalent of it (utf8mb4?)

And you are contradicting yourself by proposing two defaults at the same time.

So 5 years from now on someone like you will complain the wrong one was chosen.

Neither HTML nor table/db/schema encodings are part of the language and magically changing their settings/headers would not only require new modules and procedures.

(Not sure if CGI.pm is even actively developed anymore.)

It would also mean magically overriding the configs of the Web/DB servers.

> I don't think it's a stretch

Well, who else thinks like you?

Which language does it like you propose?

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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