Unicode support in perl is broken.
That isn’t even vaguely true, let alone concretely true. Just because one person does not understand something, or because another person doesn’t like something, does in no fashion mean that that something is somehow “broken”. To claim otherwise is tantamount to spreading leyendas negras and perilously close to spreading FUD. We need neither of those.

Having fought my way through the many, many ways that Unicode does not work properly in various other languages like Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Javascript, not to mention the original misguided implementation of Unicode support from Perl 5.6 that’s been thankfully redesigned since then, I am completely confident that Perl’s Unicode support is not only not broken, but also that the Unicode support in Perl is superior to that in all those languages I’ve just mentioned.

Now, it is actually true that Unicode support has improved in the 5.14 release of Perl. However, Unicode support in Perl has been perfectly serviceable for many years now. To pretend that it is “broken” may be misunderstanding, it may be disagreement, and it may be bitter bluster, but it is simply and fundamentally not true.

It is also misleading and harmful to hear repeated. It helps nothing and only hurts people, people who may be naïvely deceived by this facile deceit. Here is what you should do instead:

Those are the only reasonable choices. If none of those “appeals” to you, then please gain some proper perspective by seriously trying out those other languages’ implementations of Unicode support. Who knows, you might even like them better than you do Perl’s.

If it irks you to paddle upstream all the time, then turn around and go the other way. Save yourself some grief — and the rest of us, too.

In reply to Re^6: Simplest Possible Way To Disable Unicode by tchrist
in thread Simplest Possible Way To Disable Unicode by JapanIsShinto

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.