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- From: kono@csl.sony.co.jp (Shinji Kono)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Perl 5 and Latin-1
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.131621.8150@nntp.csl.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 13:16:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.101320.27904@enea.se>
- Sender: daemon@nntp.csl.sony.co.jp (The devil himself)
- Reply-To: kono@csl.sony.co.jp
- Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc.
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- Support for 8bit char and multi-byte code sounds very good. I heard
- there is a two byte char code version of perl for Japanese.
-
- In article <1992Dec14.101320.27904@enea.se> ,
- sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes
- >Using Latin-1 would also give a vast new range
- >of special characters which could used as operators and other
- >funny things.
-
- Hm, how about JIS X 0208 for perl? You have more than 7000 operaors as
- kanji characters! If you think it is ridiculous, Latin-1 operators are
- also reidiculous to us.
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- Shinji Kono @ kono@csl.sony.co.jp
- Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Inc,Japan
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