Re: String character range

From: Alasdair Allan <aa-at-astro.ex.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:12:37 +0100

Mark Taylor wrote:
> Not hard in Unicode-aware languages which use the same escaping
> mechanism as SAMP does for Unicode characters (Java, Python); not
> too hard in languages designed for text manipulation (Perl);

Actually Perl is Unicode native as well, has been since Perl 5.8, see

http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.0/pod/perluniintro.pod

> Which of these is best depends on how important the requirement to
> be able to send Unicode and control characters is. My vote is not
> very. Can we have a show of hands?

Over SAMP? My vote is not very.

Al. Received on 2008-08-04Z13:13:05