[Gnome-bindings] Re: Strings and bindings

[Bart Schuller <schuller+gtk lunatech com>]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 02:13:41PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> Perl (5.6)
> ==========
> 
> Strings are not marked as unicode or not. Instead utf8 processing can
> be turned on for a block using the 'use utf8' pragma.

No, that was perl5.005_50. perl5.6 does mark strings as utf8 or not, but
is willing to postpone the decision.

In most cases there should be no need for "use utf8" because it's the
default, and one can "use byte". Support for tagging filehandles as
producing utf8 or bytes is still incomplete, as is XS support (though
there are patches).

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