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Feature Requests item #878378, was opened at 2004-01-16 17:01 Message generated for change (Settings changed) made by gellyfish You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=425772&aid=878378&group_id=39625 Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Priority: 5 Submitted By: peter gervai (grin) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: support UTF-8 Initial Comment: Please support UTF-8. 8859-1 is history. It's bad. It's evil. It's codepage 437! Burn. Burn. And perl supports unicode anyway. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: peter gervai (grin) Date: 2004-01-17 11:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=9622 That was an asnwer without thinking, I am really sorry to point out. The right answer would require to consider things. You are very right that old perl does not support unicode, I accept that. However I am talking about supporting UTF-8 *webpages* (input), which does not have to rely on Unicode support in perl. In fact it probably would not even use it (you can handle it just fine without unicode regexp, etc). All you have to do is to 1) use utf-8 encodings on pages and generated pages 2) handle utf-8 input (at validation, it is not that complex if you check man perluni and see valid ranges, there are 4 or like!) I think that's all. In fact I tried to do that but somewhere the code screws up the input and I cannot figure out where, and I did not have the time to rewrite the whole beast. :-( So if you still believe that the request is not worthy of consoderation (since the program is completely useless in its current form outside latin1 regions) go on and close it. Thanks for your time and efforts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Dave Cross (davorg) Date: 2004-01-16 17:54 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=34146 Not all versions of Perl support UTF-* successfully. We expect out programs to work on versions of Perl back to 5.004_04, so we are unlikely to rely on UTF-8 support in the near future. Dave... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=425772&aid=878378&group_id=39625 |