Very informative, thanks. I do have one question, though. On page 49, you say "Code that assumes that ASCII is good enough for writing English properly is stupid, shortsighted, illiterate, broken, evil, and wrong." My apologies for being shortsighted/underinformed, but could you expound on this a bit more? In what ways?

I ask because I seem to be writing the translation-handling code at $work, and will likely be the de facto developer dealing with translation issues, both from the translators and from developers, so this topic intrigues me greatly, and I'm trying to understand as much of it as possible in as little time as possible so that I can deal with issues as they come up.

Thanks,

In reply to Re: OSCON Perl Unicode Slides by Tanktalus
in thread OSCON Perl Unicode Slides by tchrist

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