I appreciate, and agree with, the principle of your remarks here. However, I seem to have a unique experience with computers as compared to others. I have sometimes made no mistake at all in my code, and yet have nothing but errors for the output--resulting in the type of hair-pulling frustration that can last for literally hours of "guess and check" (since I have no clue why it wouldn't be working already--and maybe I'm just ignorant of some mistake I've made). After hours, and sometimes even days, of unrequited frustration, I finally take more drastic measures (why I didn't I think to try such earlier?) like restarting my apache2 server--and, voila! Everything now suddenly works! My perl code was not at fault during that whole time. This sort of thing has happened to me more than once. Sometimes a computer restart does the trick. These kinds of experiences cause me to distrust, in measure, the observable results, and to be unsure if they directly relate to my own code. Most of the time, of course, it is my code at fault...but with more than a few of these sort of experiences, it shakes one's confidence that such would be the case. Furthermore, as most programmers would likely agree, error messages can be notoriously misleading.

But...seeing as my experience with unicode seems to be in the same category of uniqueness, perhaps I should say no more. It is clear that my views on the subject are unwelcome here.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^13: Converting Unicode by Polyglot
in thread Converting Unicode by BernieC

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