note flexvault <p><a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=171588">BrowserUk</a>,</p> <p>WOW, I like that shorthand format, N/(N/a*)* and N/(n/a*)* , look very flexible for future encoding/decoding uses.</p><p> <ul><i> Until you apply some form of encode/decoding operation to a file or data stream, anything you read is just a bunch of bytes.</i></ul> This was my take also! <ul><i> Unicode is a f*** up! </i></ul> Agreed! I haven't looked at this much, but the spec says '22 bits', but Perl code seems to use '24 bits' for each character with the high-order bits being '00'. Whether other implementations do the same I don't know, but seems like too much room for mis-interpretation. </p> <p>Thank you</p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-733061"> <p><b>"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin</b></p> </div></div> 987602 987781