Re: Interpretation of non-UTF8 strings

Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:

>>>Python explicitly distinguishes byte strings and Unicode strings,
>>>which allows the two models to coexist without ambiguity.
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>I think that (not doing) this was the basic failure of the Perl Unicode
>>model.  We made a valiant attempt at making them the same and allowing
>>old legacy code to work, and I think we got close, but the scheme could
>>carry us only so far.
>>
> 
> Actually I thought that the Perl implementation of Unicode was pretty 
> good, at least since 5.8.0... (5.6.x series was kind of broken IMHO, and 
> there was no 'Encode'...).

Gee, thanks, in that case could everyone please erase from their minds
what I just said :-)  Normally people just bitch on and on about how
Perl's Unicode is sooo broken, which is not exactly a motivation builder
for me...

> 

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