Except that he's having problems with Unicode encodings.

He didn't specify which encodings are involved, and it really doesn't matter. He's having problems with encodings, and he'd have the same problems no matter which encoding were involved.

as a shorthand for one or more of the encodings embodied in the Unicode standard(s)

There are no encodings embodied in the Unicode standard. At least that's what I was told, and I don't see any myself. Feel free to point out where.

So again, Perl is great at handling Unicode. It's probably the best at it. Perl's support is so good that the Consortium is asking for advice from Perl's developers in defining behaviour that it never defined well because noone else had attempted to implement it yet.

Encodings, that's another issue. That's what was being discussed.

In reply to Re^10: Mugged by UTF8, this CANNOT be right by ikegami
in thread Mugged by UTF8, this CANNOT be right by tosh

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