Re: Plea for the support of unicode escape sequences

[Tom N Harris <telliamed@...>]

On 07/01/2011 01:04 AM, "J.Jørgen von Bargen" wrote:
> /Please/ dont. Then you'll end, where perl is: reading an 1MB file into
> a string consumes 4MB of memory :-/ . One of the mayor reasons, I've
> switched to Lua. I'm quite happy with Lua the way it is. A small utf8
> module and you can do what you like to. Lua's "one char is one byte and
> Lua doesnt care, if it's ascii or utf8 or utf16be or utf16le in the
> bytes" is exactly what I want. In perl with every release you have to
> struggle again, how to get unicode data to be handled.

Well I was going to try it just for fun. But now I see that Linux 
doesn't have wfopen, so that's the end of that.


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