And there's my point. For web programming there's more checking+encoding+decoding than there is actual programming logic.

Perl is an incredible language, my exclusive language for 15 years now, but when it comes to the global language requirements that most web programming ultimately requires perhaps Perl is presently just not suited to that task.

Maybe I'm just bitchy and irritated right now, but I think of a 10 column X 100 row table of data, that's 1000 data points, and each needs to be checked, decoded, encoded, numerous times. It should not be like this, the future of programming is globally connected and Perl needs to deal with this fact a lot better.

Which leads me to ask: Is there a programming language that easily handles Unicode either automatically or with a flag in the program that when set tells everything else to use Unicode, or is everyone else writing PHP/Python/ASP/Java/etc. as frustrated?

Tosh

In reply to Re^5: Mugged by UTF8, this CANNOT be right by tosh
in thread Mugged by UTF8, this CANNOT be right by tosh

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