Re: [tlug] UTF-8 makes multi-byte ignorant UNIX tools play nice multi-byte characters

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 14/01/06, Jim <jep200404@example.com> wrote:

> Use UTF-8,
>
> so that the classic byte-at-a-time UNIX tools that are
> ignorant of multi-byte character handling, can handle multi-byte
> characters without knowing or caring how to handle multi-byte
> characters.

Perl's implementation uses UTF-8 internally for all strings, so the
*programmer* may remain ignorant of the details of handling multi-byte
strings.

-Josh