> 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
(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) "...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.

In reply to Re^13: Seeking Perl docs about how UTF8 flag propagates (Terminology) by LanX
in thread Seeking Perl docs about how UTF8 flag propagates by raygun

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