Introducing utf8::all

Perl programmers are probably all aware of the utf8 pragma, which turns on UTF-8 in your source code. This is actually a stumbling block for new programmers, who might think that utf8 makes your filehandles use UTF-8 by default, or automagically turns incoming data into UTF-8, and ensures outgoing data is all UTF-8 as well. Sadly, that’s not the case.

However, one of the great things about perl5i is that it turns on Unicode. All of it.

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Posted: Apr 21, 2011
Tags: cpan  perl5i  release  schwern  unicode  utf8 

The death of tribal knowledge

Michael Schwern talks about Perl5’s shortcomings, and explains how perl5i can overcome many of them – it is a pragma to fix as much of Perl 5 as possible all at once. While I haven’t worked with perl5i much, I wanted to talk about something Schwern talked about that resonated with me, and that’s the concept of “tribal knowledge.”

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Posted: Feb 11, 2011
Tags: modern-perl  perl  perl5i  schwern 

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