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Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.
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http://www.astray.com/
Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.
Thursday July 22, 2004
09:12 AM
Unicode
See, I like the idea of Unicode. However, at the Italian Perl Workshop almost every talk had a little bit about how to get Unicode working in a module / project / database. And there are various CPAN modules with Unicode issues.
I think we've basically screwed up Unicode. We shouldn't have to talk about it, it should just work. And BOMs being optional is madness...
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Unicode encodings (Score:2)
It gets worse - there's been N different versions of Unicode now, capable of encoding different numbers of characters. eg, in Java 1.0, the version of Unicode it supported only permitted 65536 different characters (a character was 16 bits) but now unicode supports at least 32 bits.
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