Re: (random) musings on IO disciplines by Nicholas Clark- September 27, 2000 On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 01:26:18PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:> At 11:04 PM 92600 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:> >Well, let&39;s go over here, then. I just submitted an RFC for internal string> >abstraction, which may or may not be the same thing as what you were just> >talking about.> > Well, the impression I get from Larry is that he wants the internals to be > character-formatting neutral. Scalars should be able to provide their > contents in a number of...http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals.unicode/2000/09/msg4.html Re: (random) musings on IO disciplines by Dan Sugalski- September 27, 2000 At 11:04 PM 92600 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:>Well, let&39;s go over here, then. I just submitted an RFC for internal string>abstraction, which may or may not be the same thing as what you were just>talking about.Well, the impression I get from Larry is that he wants the internals to be character-formatting neutral. Scalars should be able to provide their contents in a number of different formats, but perl would usually not have One True Format internally. (Though how many True Formats..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals.unicode/2000/09/msg3.html Re: (random) musings on IO disciplines by Simon Cozens- September 26, 2000 On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:54:25PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:> At 05:50 PM 92600 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:> >At 02:14 PM 92600 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:> >>But the point of an IO discipline is to convert tofrom> >>UTF-8, perl&39;s internal form. If you want to write a> >>shift-JIS to big5 converter, do> >> >UTF-8 may not be perl&39;s internal form. Depending on what Larry&39;s looking > >at, perl might not have a canonical internal form..http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals.unicode/2000/09/msg2.html Re: RFC 312 (v1) Unicode Combinatorix by Simon Cozens- September 26, 2000 On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:10:39PM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:> Someone&39;s been busy...I&39;m not finished yet.> > C<no unicode> just throws everything. None of the above happens.> What does "just throws everything" mean Oops, yes. I claimed I was going to thrash out the exact semantics of nounicode here, and I didn&39;t.In "no unicode" mode: The default level 2 line discipline does nothing Data coming into Perl via "any other method".http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals.unicode/2000/09/msg1.html |