Fwd: Unicode versus Utf8
Fwd: Unicode versus Utf8
- Subject: Fwd: Unicode versus Utf8
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:05:57 -0400
Sent only to Philip by mistake.
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 14:05:19 -0400
Subject: Re: Unicode versus Utf8
To: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
The perl function I use *does* encode a whole string. I just used the
chr() function to create a string from a char I'd.
On 7/5/09, Philip Aker <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 2009-07-05, at 06:32:35, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>> And Philip: the win here is not so much Perl but the large set of
>> useful modules that come preinstalled with it.
>
>
> perl -= 1;
> tclsh -= 1/2;
>
> Ok, I'm retracting the extra point for Perl, and instead, shaving off
> 1/2 a point for the built-in Tcl extension package ::uri::urn not
> advertising it's similar capability. Not to mention that the proc is
> misnamed "quote" (rather than "escape").
>
> set urichars to "dörk"
> do shell script "tclsh <<< 'package require uri::urn;puts [uri::urn::quote
> {" & urichars & "}]'"
>
> Which of course leads me to prompt for the similar capability in Perl.
> That is, encode a whole string, not just a unicode character id.
>
>
> Philip Aker
> echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@
>
> Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
>
>
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