Re: [MacPerl] Recognizing Unix Line Breaks

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 6.51 97/5/5, Lasse Hiller¿e Petersen wrote:
>I think this is actually a general problem: Perl handles bytes, not
>characters, so a similar problem exists with for instance Unicode
>characters. How does Perl deal with two-byte characters? (I know this is
>not MacPerl specific, but it is certainly relevant.)

It handles multibyte byte by byte.  A two-byte character is two separate
entities to Perl.  Jeffrey Friedl -- who wrote the regex book for O'Reilly
and lives (ised to live?) in Japan, where multibyte characters are normal
-- wrote a piece in the most recent issue of The Perl Journal concerning
regexs and multibyte characters.

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