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- From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
- Subject: Perl 5 and Latin-1
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.101320.27904@enea.se>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:13:20 GMT
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- Perl 4 is decently 8-bit clean, not to say completely 8-bit clean.
- However, its opinion on the characters > 128 seems to be that they
- are special characters, so none of them won't match or eligble for
- subroutines names. (They can be used in variable names though, like
- almost any other character.)
-
- I suggest that as a first step Perl 5 supports also Latin-1 and
- includes the codes from 192 to 255, 215 and 247 excepted, in the
- alphanumeric set. Using Latin-1 would also give a vast new range
- of special characters which could used as operators and other
- funny things. Of course, it would probably be very mean to have
- some new operator only using an eight-bit character, but it could
- an alternative.
-
- --
- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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